Update on Yucca Mountain and Transportation Impacts on Native American Communities Bob Halstead Office of the Governor Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects.

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Update on Yucca Mountain and Transportation Impacts on Native American Communities Bob Halstead Office of the Governor Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects March 26, 2015

Overview What Exists at Yucca Mountain Today Spent Fuel and High-Level Nuclear Waste Transportation Risks Impacts on Native American Communities Recent Developments

What Exists Today at Yucca Mountain Discussion necessary because of misinformation presented in pro-Yucca Mountain media reports No waste disposal tunnels No waste handling facilities No repository construction authorization No railroad access Expired BLM land withdrawal

Only Exploratory Tunnel Exists Cannot be used for storage or disposal

Safety and Environmental Case Against Yucca Mountain The site is not suitable for development as a geologic repository The DOE license application is incomplete, inaccurate, and no longer valid The DOE Yucca Mountain transportation impacts are unacceptable The DOE environmental impact statement (EIS) does not comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Transportation Risks Incident-free exposures to members of the public; Incident-free exposures to transportation workers; Release of radioactive material as a result of the maximum reasonably foreseeable transportation accident; & Release of radioactive material following a successful act of sabotage or terrorism Source: Halstead and Dilger, ANS IHLRWMC 2011, Albuquerque, NM, April 10-14, 2011, Pp

Spent Fuel Assemblies Are Lethally Radioactive during Transportation Age (years) Activity (curies/assembly) Surface Dose Rate (rem/hr) Lethal Exposure (time) 12,500,000234,0007 seconds 5600,00046,80035 seconds 10400,00023, minutes 50100,0008, minutes 10050,0002, minutes Spent fuel activity and surface dose rates are provided in DOE-NRC, Waste Confidence Proceeding, Statement of Position of the U.S. Department of Energy, DOE/NE-007(April 15, 1980) Table II-4, p.II-56. NRC defines lethal dose as the dose of radiation expected to cause death to 50 percent of an exposed population within 30 days, typically 400 to 450 rem (4 to 5 sieverts) received over a very short time. See rm/basic-ref/glossary/lethal-dose-ld.html. Revised

Shipping Cask Vulnerability in Severe Accident Fires is an Ongoing Debate MacArthur Maze Baltimore Rail Tunnel

Tests Show Shipping Casks Are Vulnerable to Terrorist Attacks Truck Cask Test, 1982Rail Cask Test, 1998

Shipments to Yucca Mountain The DOE proposed Action Ship 9,495 rail casks (2,800 trains) & 2,650 truck casks over 50 years If No 2 nd Repository: 21,909 rail casks (about 6,700 trains) & 5,025 truck casks Average 1-3 trains (3-5 casks per train) & 1-2 trucks (1 cask per truck) per week for 50 years Every day, for 50 years, one or more loaded casks on rail or road, from 76 shipping sites to a single national repository or storage site

Shipping Sites and Yucca Mt.

Located in Las Vegas within 0.5 mile (800 m) of UPRR Route to Caliente : 34 Hotels, 49,000 Hotel Rooms 40,000 Visitors & Workers Rail through Las Vegas to Yucca Mountain via Caliente Up to 110 trainloads per year Unacceptable Las Vegas Transportation Impacts 100% of Truck Shipments 1 or 2 trucks per week 220,000 Clark County residents Live within the 0.5 mile Region Of influence (ROI) for Truck and Rail

Shipping Sites and Tribal Lands

Tribes in CA, AZ NV and UT

Nevada Detail

Tribes Detail

Recent Developments NRC Licensing Proceeding Congress and Proposed Legislation DOE Program Developments Rep. Hardy’s Op-Ed