A Web-Site to Demonstrate the Safety of Radioactive Material Transportation Packages

The U.S. Department of Energy National Transportation Program (NTP) is committed to dissemination of accurate and reliable information about radioactive material (RAM) transportation. Pursuant to this commitment, NTP has sponsored the development of SAFE, a web-based tool, by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) for demonstrating to the public, the media, stakeholders, and interested parties the safety of the transportation of radioactive materials. Recent public interactions during shipment campaigns have indicated a need for improved means of communicating the high level of safety inherent in compliance with current regulations and practices. This paper describes the SAFE web-site (Figure 1) and the philosophy behind its development. In addition, it shows how it can be used to improve communication about RAM transportation.