Spent fuel shipping costs for transportation logistics analyses

Conference · Sun May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:6285282

Cole, B M; Cross, R E; Cashwell, J W

Logistics analyses supplied to the nuclear waste management programs of the U.S. Department of Energy through the Transportation Technology Center (TTC) at Sandia National Laboratories are used to predict nuclear waste material logistics, transportation packaging demands, shipping and receiving rates and transportation-related costs for alternative strategies. This study is an in-depth analysis of the problems and contingencies associated with the costs of shipping irradiated reactor fuel. These costs are extremely variable however, and have changed frequently (sometimes monthly) during the past few years due to changes in capital, fuel, and labor costs. All costs and charges reported in this study are based on January 1982 data using existing transport cask systems and should be used as relative indices only. Actual shipping costs would be negotiable for each origin-destination combination.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA); Rockwell International Corp., Richland, WA (USA). Rockwell Hanford Operations; Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6285282
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-11135; CONF-830528-24; ON: DE83013250
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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