The New Environmental Cleanup Mission of the U.S. Department of Energy-A New Challenge in Transportation Innovation

Thank you. First, I want to thank our hosts and organizers for arranging such an excellent conference. The number of participating nations and the volume and range of the papers to be presented and published is ample evidence of the importance of PATRAM in the exchange of knowledge about the transportation and packaging of radioactive materials. I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to discuss some of the DOE programs which are so important to the DOE mission under the new conditions which exist in the world today. I especially want to highlight the importance and need for transportation systems technological developments for this mission.