PHYSICAL SECURITY DURING TRANSPORTATION-1976

The U.S. government is in the process of quietly taking over an important section of the fuel cycle; that is, the transportation of strategic special nuclear material. True, the Energy Research and Development Administration is now only beginning to transport ERDA-owned SSNM between contractor/ license plants, however, with the current low level of commercial activity, private industry w i l l not be able to justify maintaining a separate capability for the continuance of it's operations. This is in apparent conflict with the conclusions in the still unreleased Federal Security Agency Study of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.