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  2. Safeguards Transporter - Wikipedia

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    A Safeguards Transporter (SGT) is a truck developed for and used by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous affiliate agency of the United States Department of Energy, for the ground transport of nuclear weapons in the contiguous United States. SGTs' trailers are known as Safe Secure Trailers (SST).

  3. Defence Nuclear Material Transport Operations - Wikipedia

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    Defence Nuclear Material Transport Contingency Arrangements are in place in case of accidents involving DNMs. In a report from the Nuclear Movements and Nuclear Accident Response Group [2] an extreme accident could result in a nuclear explosion. A serious vehicle collision or an aircraft crash combined with multiple failures of the MoD's secret ...

  4. Nuclear flask - Wikipedia

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    A nuclear flask is a shipping container that is used to transport active nuclear materials between nuclear power station and spent fuel reprocessing facilities. Each shipping container is designed to maintain its integrity under normal transportation conditions and during hypothetical accident conditions.

  5. By barge, rail or truck? Feds propose travel routes for ... - AOL

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    A 2024 U.S. Department of Energy report identified truck routes that could be used to deliver Indian Point's spent nuclear fuel for transportation by rail.

  6. 489 shipments of nuclear waste made its way to WIPP in 2023 ...

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    In 2017, the year WIPP reopened in April of that year, there were just 133 shipments of nuclear waste sent to the site. The highest annual total ever was 1,142 shipments reported in 2006, records ...

  7. Office of Secure Transportation - Wikipedia

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    The Office of Secure Transportation (OST) is a highly-specialized law enforcement division of the National Nuclear Security Administration within the United States Department of Energy. The OST's mission is to provide safe and secure transportation of nuclear weapons and components and special nuclear materials and conduct other missions in ...

  8. After 20+ years, success at Hanford’s huge nuclear waste ...

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    The same truck and trailer plus two more will be used to haul canisters with radioactive waste immobilized in glass to a lined landfill in central Hanford, the Integrated Disposal Facility. Each ...

  9. Low-level radioactive waste policy of the United States

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    The transport of LLW is regulated by two United States government agencies. The first is the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) under the 1974 Transportation Safety Act (H.R. 15223), and second, the NRC under authority of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. § 2011) and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. [16]