Overview of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management's National Transportation Plan - 9338

One of the objectives of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) Program is to develop and begin implementation of a comprehensive national transportation plan that accommodates state, local, and tribal concerns and input to the greatest extent practicable. Development of the National Transportation Plan (NTP or Plan) is a step towards achieving that objective. This NTP outlines the Department of Energy’s (DOE) current strategy and planning for developing and implementing the transportation system required to transport spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) from where the material is generated or stored to the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The Plan describes how DOE’s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) intends to develop and implement a safe, secure and efficient transportation system and how stakeholder collaboration will contribute to the development of that transportation system. This paper provides an overview of the NTP.