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How Is Radioactive Waste Transported?

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How Is Radioactive Waste Transported?

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Audeen W. Fentiman Jeffery A. Henkel Ronald J. Veley Low-level radioactive waste is generated by public utilities, industries, universities, and hospitals throughout the United States. The waste is shipped to available low-level waste disposal sites, primarily by truck in containers designed for transportation of low-level waste. Transportation of low-level radioactive waste is regulated primarily by two government agencies. They are the U.S. Department of Transportation-Office of Motor Carriers (under authority of the Motor Carrier Act) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (under authority of the Atomic Energy Act and the Energy Recovery Act of 1974). The Code of Federal Regulations contains the regulations written by both agencies. This fact sheet outlines the principal regulations governing the transportation of low-level radioactive waste.