Probabilistic risk assessment and nuclear waste transportation: A case study of the use of RADTRAN in the 1986 Environmental Assessment for Yucca Mountain

Technical Report · 01 December 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/140767· OSTI ID:140767

Resnikoff, M ^[1]

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1. Radioactive Waste Management Associates, New York, NY (United States)

The analysis of the risks of transporting irradiated nuclear fuel to a federal repository, Appendix A of the DOE Environmental Assessment for Yucca Mountain (DOE84), is based on the RADTRAN model and input parameters. The RADTRAN computer code calculates the radiation exposures and health effects under normal or incident-free transport, and over all credible accident conditions. The RADTRAN model also calculates the economic consequences of transportation accidents, though these costs were not included in the Department`s Environmental Assessment for the proposed Yucca Mountain repository.

• Research Organization: Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office, Carson City, NV (United States); Radioactive Waste Management Associates, New York, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG08-85NV10461
• OSTI ID: 140767
• Report Number(s): NWPO-TN-006-90; ON: DE92017679; TRN: 92:034554
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Dec 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
99 MATHEMATICS
COMPUTERS
INFORMATION SCIENCE
MANAGEMENT
LAW
MISCELLANEOUS
WASTE TRANSPORTATION
RISK ASSESSMENT
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
R CODES
RADIATION DOSES
HUMAN POPULATIONS
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
HEALTH HAZARDS
ECONOMICS
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
ACCIDENTS
SPENT FUELS
NEOPLASMS
Yucca Mountain Project