Risk analysis of shipping plutonium pits and mixed oxide fuel /
(the National Environmental Protection Act) mandates that
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | (the National Environmental Protection Act) mandates that 0.89 resulting from traffic accidents. For the placement of along any of the three routes would receive 1.0 X 10-5 rem another, in this case from Pantex to Palo Verde. The total associated with the transportation of radioactive materials. be used as fuel in a commercial nuclear power plant. Any credible threat of war between nuclear superpowers, with its developed by Sandia National Laboratories for evaluating risk expected fatalities over a 25 year campaign duration for this facility located either at the Pantex Plant or the Savannah fatalities for this scenario over 25 years would be 0.413, for disposition of excess U.S. weapons plutonium is the from latent cancer fatalities due to radiation exposure and from the MOX fuel fabrication facility to the nuclear power fuel would need to be transported from one facility to identified as a national priority. The process of carrying is intended to demonstrate the capability to analyze the lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. For this reason, MOX fuel would be shipped to Palo Verde. The total number of nuclear weapon in the hands of a terrorist organization or out this disposition itself carries some risks, and even per year or 0.25 mrem over 25 years. pits would be converted to MOX fuel at a fuel fabrication pits would need to be shipped from Pantex to SRS and then the plant, and possibly transportation of the plutonium from a plutonium, has been identified as the source of a number of possible consequence of billions of fatalities. However, the potential catastrophes. For example, just a single crude primary tool used for these analyses was RADTRAN, a code residue of the cold war, most notably the now excess weapons resulting from 5.29 x 10-2 latent cancer fatalities and 0.36 risks associated with such transportation campaigns. The River Site (SRS), and then the MOX fuel would be ultimately rogue state and detonated in even a medium-sized city could scenario of placing the MOX fuel fabrication facility at SRS, scenario would be 1.06, with 0. 1 73 fatalities resulting shipped to a final destination of a commercial power plant, smaller in magnitude than those cited above, U.S. federal law Specifically, one possible option that has been identified storage site to the fuel fabrication facility. This thesis such process will involve the transportation of the MOX fuel such risks must be analyzed. The ability to carry out one the MOX fuel fabrication facility at Pantex, only the MOX the Palo Verde Generating Station in Arizona. For the the ultimate disposition of this excess plutonium has been though any conceivable consequences clearly will be much traffic accident fatalities. The maximum exposed individual transformation into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, that then would transformation of plutonium pits to MOX fuel. First, the Two sample scenarios were explored relative to the type of such an analysis is demonstrated in this thesis. With the end of the cold war, there no longer seems to be a |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Nuclear Engineering". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | x, 106 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |