Use of StateGEN for the Routing Analysis of Transporting Radioactive Materials

In January 1987, the Nevada State Legislature passed Assembly Bill No. 47. The bill required the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) to develop plans for routing shipments of highway route controlled quantities of radioactive materials and high-level radioactive waste. NDOT contracted the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada-Reno (UNR) to perform an analysis of the risks involved in the transportation of said materials. UNR proposed to investigate existing data bases and routing/risk models that could be used in the selection of the routes. One of the eight routing/risk models investigated was StateGEN. UNR selected this model to identifj alternative routes to transport the radioactive materials ·in Nevada.