Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, the Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) is concerned with understanding and managing risk as it applies to the shipment of spent commercial nuclear reactor fuel. Understanding risk in relation to mode and geography may provide opportunities to minimize radiological and non-radiological risks of transportation. To enhance such an understanding, a set of state-or waterway-specific accident, fatality, and injury rates (expressed as rates per shipment kilometer) by transportation mode and highway administrative class was developed, using publicly-available data bases. Adjustments made to accommodate miscoded or incomplete information in accident data are described, as well as the procedures for estimating state-level flow data. Results indicate that the shipping conditions under which spent fuel is likely to be transported should be less subject to accidents than the ''average'' shipment within mode. 10 refs., 3 tabs.
Trends in state-level freight accident rates: An enhancement of risk factor development for RADTRAN
1991
40 pages
Report
No indication
English
Radiation Shielding, Protection, & Safety , Radioactive Wastes & Radioactivity , Reactor Fuels & Fuel Processing , Railroad Transportation , Accidents , Waste Transportation , Geography , Radioactive Waste Management , Regional Analysis , Risk Assessment , Routing , Spent Fuels , Meetings , EDB/050900 , EDB/054000