Certification Testing of United States Department of Energy Atlas and Buffer Railcars—Phase 4 Report for the United States Department of Energy

As part of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Atlas Railcar Project, the Atlas and Buffer railcars were developed to meet the need for future large-scale rail transport of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. MxV Rail (formerly Transportation Technology Center, Inc.), a subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads (AAR), performed singlecar certification testing and modeling on these railcars. This report provides a summary of testing and modeling results in accordance with S-2043 requirements for the Single-Car Test (Paragraph 5.0) and Post-Test Analysis (Paragraph 8.0).