Evaluation of rail access 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:

1270

Last page number:

1277

Abstract

This paper provides a preliminary evaluation and characterization of potential rail routes for the transport of high level radioactive waste from their current storage locations (76 power plants and 4 federal facilities) to the proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Individual routes were determined for shipments from each origin using the INTERLINE model. They were characterized in terms of shipment distance, number of transfers and states transversed. Additionally, specific routing constraints were imposed for a selected subset of the origins to address policy and operational alternatives such as minimizing shipment distance, number of transfers or number of states traversed. Results of the analysis indicate that the imposition of the routing constraint count result in reducing shipment distances, and the number of states traversed. But a tradeoff between these factors and the number of transfers exists.

Keywords

Geological repositories; Radioactive wastes; Railroad travel

Disciplines

Civil and Environmental Engineering | Environmental Engineering | Environmental Sciences

Language

English

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