NRC taking comments on draft shipping cask report

Washington (Platts)--16Sep2005

NRC is accepting comments and questions on a draft report that says spent fuel
shipping casks would survive intact a rail accident similar to the one that
triggered a tunnel fire in Baltimore, Md. in 2001, according to a notice in
today's Federal Register. Neither spent fuel nor fission products would be
released in such an accident, according to the report, which can be retrieved
from the NRC Adams system, accession number ML052490242. Though crud might
come loose from the fuel, any crud release would be small and would not be a
major concern, according to NRC. Comments on the draft report are due by Oct.
31.

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