DOE M 460.2-1A
Attachment 4
6-4-08
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SUMMARY OF RESOURCES In fulfilling its diverse civilian and defense missions, the DOE transports various types of radioactive materials and wastes around the country. Types of radiological shipments include materials and isotopes for medical, industrial, and research uses; weapons and weapons-related materials; radioactive waste; plutonium residues and oxides; highly enriched uranium; spent nuclear fuel; and new (unirradiated or unused) nuclear fuel. Each DOE organization has additional information available on the internet. Key sites include: Office of Environmental Management: In 1989, the Department of Energy created the Office of Environmental Management (EM) to mitigate the risks and hazards posed by the legacy of nuclear weapons production and research. Although the nation continues to maintain an arsenal of nuclear weapons, as well as some production capability, the United States has embarked on new missions. The most ambitious and far ranging of these missions is dealing with the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Like most industrial and manufacturing operations, the nuclear complex has generated waste, pollution, and contamination. However, many problems posed by its operations are unique. They include unprecedented amounts of contaminated waste, water, and soil, and a vast number of contaminated structures that will remain radioactive for thousands of years. http://www.em.doe.gov/pages/emhome.aspx • Office of Transportation. http://www.em.doe.gov/Pages/Transportation.aspx From this site, you can follow the links to: o Transportation Emergency Preparedness Program (http://www.em.doe.gov/TEPPPages/TEPPHome.aspx) From this web site, you can access the 24-hour points of contact, and other related TEPP information. o Fact Sheets and publications covering transportation, packaging and regulations for shipping radioactive materials/wastes. o Transportation Routing Analysis Geographic Information System (TRAGIS) is a routing analysis tool combining graphical interfaces with an extensive highway, rail, and waterway database. TRAGIS can be used to calculate detailed routes based on user-specified parameters, and replace the legacy HIGHWAY and INTERLINE routing models. https://tragis.ornl.gov/tragis.htm o RADTRAN is the national and international standard for transportation risk assessment for radioactive materials. RADTRAN combines user-determined demographic, routing, transportation, packaging, and materials data with meteorological data (partly user-determined) and health physics data to calculate expected radiological consequences of incident-free radioactive materials transportation and associated accident risks. https://radtran.sandia.gov/ • The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world's first underground repository licensed to safely and permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste left from the
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