OCRWM National Transportation Plan DOE/RW-0603 Revision 0

This Plan outlines the Department of Energy’s (DOE) 2009 strategy and planning for developing and implementing the transportation system required to transport spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) from where the material is generated or stored to the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. As such, it is a historical document that reflected the DOE's thinking and/or approach in 2009. The Plan describes how DOE’s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) intended to develop and implement a safe, secure and efficient transportation system and how stakeholder collaboration will contribute to the development of that transportation system.

The Plan identifies major transportation system components and activities and specifically addresses: 1) capital asset acquisitions, including how the hardware, facilities and other physical assets needed for the transportation system will be acquired by the National Transportation Project and the Nevada Rail Infrastructure Project; 2) operations development, including the operations planning and logistics management activities currently being conducted, or planned to be conducted to ensure a safe, secure and efficient transportation system; and 3) the institutional program.