Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: ad4d8b7d-0152-4925-9f59-1670aab70923
Document Type: esrp
Title: TRANSPORTATION ACCIDENTS
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 7
Section ID: 7.4
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to and from Nuclear Power Plants (AEC 1972). The environmental risks of accidents in transportation are summarized in Table 7.4-1. If fuel enrichment, irradiation, and cooling time exceed the criteria in 10 CFR 51.52(a) but are within the bounds covered in the generic determinations, prepare a statement that references the generic determinations and states that the environmental impacts of fuel transportation accidents are bounded by the impacts listed in Table S-4. If an independent analysis of transportation accidents has been made, the reviewer should prepare an input that (1) describes the proposed transportation means and why they were proposed, (2) compares accident statistics for the proposed transportation modes with the statistics provided in AEC (1972), (3) discusses the increase in risk due to the proposed transportation modes, and (4) concludes that the risks are acceptable or that some alternative form of transportation is recommended for consideration. The reviewer is directed to the Transportation Accidents section of the “Draft Environmental Statement October 1999 7.4-5 NUREG-1555 Accidents in Transport Item Environmental Risk Radiological Effects Small(b) Common (Nonradiological) Causes 1 fatal injury in 100 reactor years; 1 nonfatal injury in 10 reactor years; $475 property damage per reactor-year. (a) Data supporting this table are given in the Commission’s Environmental Survey of Trans- portation of Radioactive Materials To and From Nuclear Power Plants, WASH-1238, December 1972; Supplement I, NUREG-75/038, April 1975. (b) Although the environmental risk of radiological effects stemming from transportation accidents is currently incapable of being numerically quantified, the risk remains small regardless of whether it is being applied to a single-reactor or a multireactor site. Table 7.4-1. Environmental Impact of Transportation of Fuel and Waste to and from One Light-Water Cooled Nuclear Power Reactor(a) for Atlantic Generating Station Units