TRANSPORTATION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS - Environmentally Conscious Materials Handling - page 214

CHAPTER 8
TRANSPORTATION OF RADIOACTIVE
MATERIALS

Audeen Walters Fentiman
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana

1 INTRODUCTION 217 5 REGULATIONS GOVERNING

TRANSPORTATION OF USED
NUCLEAR FUEL AND
HLW

2 RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL,

USED NUCLEAR FUEL,
AND HIGH-LEVEL WASTE

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6 TRANSPORTATION CASKS

FORUSEDNUCLEAR
FUEL AND HLW

2.1 Radioactive Material and
Radiation 219

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2.2 Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Used
Nuclear Fuel 219

7 TRANSPORTATION OF

OTHER RADIOACTIVE
MATERIALS

2.3 Reprocessing, Recycling, and
High-Level Waste 223

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3 AMOUNTS AND LOCATIONS

OF USED NUCLEAR FUEL
AND HLW TO BE
TRANSPORTED

REFERENCES 236

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4 RESPONSIBILITY FOR

TRANSPORTING USED
NUCLEAR FUEL AND
HLW 226

1 INTRODUCTION

Transportation of radioactive materials is highly specialized and heavily regu-
lated. Many different types of radioactive material are transported in the United
States, and detailed regulations exist for transportation of each type. Radioactive
materials routinely transported include isotopes used for diagnosing and treat-
ing disease, isotopes for industrial uses such as gauges to measure thickness of
paper, isotopes used as tracers in research conducted in fields such as medicine,
agriculture, and geology, and fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Several
types of radioactive waste are also transported. They include low-level radioactive
waste from hospitals and research laboratories, transuranic waste (which includes

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