Abstract
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is responsible for issuing regulations for the packaging of spent fuel (and other large quantities of radioactive material) for transport that provide for public health and safety during transport [Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 71, ‘Packaging and transportation of radioactive waste’, dated 26 January 2004]. In September 1977, the NRC published NUREG 0170, ‘Final environmental statement on the transportation of radioactive material by air and other modes’, which assessed the adequacy of those regulations to provide safety assurance. In that assessment, the measure of safety was the risk of radiation doses to the public under routine and accident transport conditions, and the risk was found to be acceptable. Since that time, there have been two affirmations of this conclusion for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) transportation, each using improved tools and information that supported the earlier studies. This report presents the results of a fou...
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