Transporting Waste To Yucca Mountain

1 July 2002 - 2:00pm

The USDOT is charged with choosing routes and testing safety for the transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel.

"For waste traveling by truck, interstate highways or connecting bypasses and beltways that avoid cities are preferred. Some shipments may go by rail or barge. No final routes have been selected for shipments to Yucca Mountain, Nev., but proposed routes pass near 109 cities of 100,000 people or more."

Source: The Christian Science Monitor, June 27, 2002
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