Transportation Operations Functions of the Federal Waste Management System

The Federal Waste Management Transportation System, developed for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (DOFJOCRWM) will interface with over 100 utility-owned reactors, a waste repository, possibly a Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) facility, and other support facilities; it will also (under normal operating conditions) be responsible for the shipment of over 3000 metric tons of uranium (MTU) throughout the U.S. This work will encompass a highly complex transportation operation, far exceeding any spent fuel shipping program implemented to date. To ensure that the system is adequately specified and all of its functions are identified, a Systems Engineering approach is being applied to develop the transportation system. This work was approved as part of the OOE/OCRWM program through the Chicago Operations Office, and the work is being carried out by the Transportation Operations Project Office (TOPO).