Estimated transportation routes to a candidate salt repository site in Deaf Smith County, Texas
This report presents a preliminary analysis of possible highway and rail transportation routes within Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico for shipments of spent fuel to the candidate repository site in Deaf Smith County, Texas. Two cases are examined for highway shipments. The initial case analyzes shipments following the Department of Transportation's HM-164 regulations for shipment of spent fuel. The second case analyzes normal commercial routes. Three rail cases are also examined. Each case analyzes potential routes that would be used based for different access spurs into the repository site. Two appendices are included which examine additional scenarios generated by restricting routes from passing through various metropolitan areas. The major finding is that most shipments to the Deaf Smith site will pass through Amarillo, Texas. There are few, if any, feasible alternative routes which would significantly reduce the amount of traffic passing through Amarillo.
- Research Organization:
- Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (USA). Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation; Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-87CH10290; AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 6814870
- Report Number(s):
- BMI/ONWI/C-221; ON: TI88016602; TRN: 88-033224
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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