What emergency safeguards exist along proposed transportation routes?
FEMA helps states, local governments, and tribes develop emergency response plans. This effort involves training and equipping emergency response personnel, medical personnel, and others to deal with potential contingencies. With proper handling and safeguards, spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste shipments can be, and have been, responsibly managed and successfully completed. However, these materials are extremely hazardous and require extraordinary precautions and vigilance. Appendix Sources of additional information about Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste transportation. U.S. DOE – www.doe.gov U.S. EPA – www.epa.gov/radiation/yucca NRC – www.nrc.gov DOT – www.fhwa.dot.gov/omc/omchome.html MSHA – www.msha.gov State of Nevada – www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/ Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board – www.nwtrb.gov/ Western Interstate Energy Board – www.westgov.org/wieb/ Nuclear Information & Resource Service – www.nirs.org Nuclear Energy Institute – www.nei.org/ Sierra Club Nuclear Waste Tas
