To Yucca from plant

摘要

The 25-year transportation programme to move spent fuel from commercial reactors around the USA to a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, will not be simple matter of loading casks on a fleet of trucks and driving to the desert. Even if the repository programme were running smoothly, which it most definitely is not, transportation issues would require millions of dollars and years of effort before the first cask ever hits the roads - or the rails. Among the big ticket items are a new railroad spur to the proposed repository site, full-scale crash and fire testing of typical spent fuel casks, and then procurement of an entire fleet of existing and custom designed casks.