Safety In Salt - The Transportation, Handling And Disposal Of Radioactive Waste

Duration: 29 min

Year Published: 1971

Creator: sandia labs

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Outlines the research and the rationale behind the decision to establish a radioactive waste repository in an abandoned salt mine in Lyons, Kansas and describes the various transportation systems being considered and now in use. Explains tests which are done to determine that the approved packages will withstand severe transportation accidents without release of radioactivity.