Analysis of Potential Highway Routes to Yucca Mountain

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1994

Publication Title

High Level Radioactive Waste Management: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference

Publisher

American Society of Civil Engineers

Volume

26

Issue

9

First page number:

1278

Last page number:

1285

Abstract

States have been provided the authority to designate routes for the transport of highway route controlled quantity shipments of radioactive materials. The state of Nevada is currently evaluating alternative routes for such designation. This paper provides a preliminary assessment of potential system impacts of Nevada's highway route designation for the shipment of High Level Radioactive Waste (HLRW) to the proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. A potential route being evaluated by Nevada was used to specify routing constraints for highway shipments to Yucca Mountain. Individual routes were determined for shipments from each origin using the HIGHWAY model for unconstrained and constrained routing scenarios. Results of the analysis indicate that the imposition of the routing constraint would result in increased travel times and shipment distances. These increases range from about 1.25 percent to about 80 percent. However, the magnitude of such increases is highly dependent on the geographic location of the origin.

Keywords

Geological repositories; Radioactive wastes; Shipping

Disciplines

Civil and Environmental Engineering | Construction Engineering and Management | Environmental Engineering | Environmental Sciences

Language

English

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