APPENDIX G: INTERSITE TRANSPORTATION

7 RAM, LSA, UF6

Table G.3-3.-- Summary of Hazardous Materials Shipped to and from Oak Ridge Reservation, Pantex Plant, Sandia National Laboratories, and Savannah River Site, 1994

  ORR Pantex SNL SRS
Commodity Shipments (number) Weight (kg) Shipments (number) Weight (kg) Shipments (number) Weight (kg) Shipments (number) Weight (kg)
Acetylene gas 13 8,101         17 3,372
Aluminum nitrate 1 5         2 53
Aluminum sulfate, solid 1 378         2 6,277
Ammonia, anhydrous 3 686     1 7 4 587

Ammonium fluoride

1 1            
Ammonium hydroxide     1 34        
Ammonium sulfate                
Argon 199 430,223 8 1,250 1 6 33 82,713
Asbestos articles 33 37,544            
Asphalt     1 540        
Beryllium metal                
Beryllium metal or powder 1 6,638            
Cadmium nitrate 1 489            
Cadmium sulfate                
Calcium nitrate 1 1 1 2        
Chlorine 35 63,200 4 1,780        
Class A poison 2 10     7 1,919    
Class B poison 2 3,680 2 1,343 2 60    
Combustible liquid, n.o.s. 28 2,237 7 1,142 1 4 3 119
Corrosive material, n.o.s. 183 213,634 60 15,996 94 26,185 120 290,507
Dry ice 153 45,406     2 511    
Empty haz containers (non-radiological) 210 576,434     1 752    
Enriched boric acid                
Environmentally hazardous substance (marine pollutant) 3 80         1 20
Environmentally hazardous substance 10 4,934            
Etiologic agent, n.o.s. 1 144            
Explosives, n.o.s. (Class 1.1)     27 25,058 26 41,891    
Explosives, n.o.s. (Class 1.2)     1 40 5 29,821    
Explosives, n.o.s. (Class 1.3)     2 2,650 27 259,008    
Explosives, n.o.s. (Class 1.4) 7 3,870 93 14,008 28 2,064 8 4,859
Ferrous sulfamate 1 2,749 1 21        
Ferrous sulfate 2 2,041            
Flammable gas, n.o.s. 42 24,301 13 1,734 9 372 25 57,028
Flammable liquid, n.o.s. 140 54,056 54 6,947 48 3,352 33 28,406
Flammable solid, n.o.s. 35 360 58 6,068 9 1,222 1 7
Fluoboric acid 1 1            
Fuel oil (diesel, 1-6) 109 366,209         3 2,188
Gasoline 166 624,837         10 4,790
Hazardous waste (nonradiological) 3 12 1 19     8 1,438
Helium 33 42,913 11 640 157 33,864 21 27,444
Hydrocarbon gas, compressed or liquefied                
Hydrochloric acid 16 95 6 20     25 43,606
Hydrofluoric acid 2 59         7 6,885
Hydrofluoric acid solution, spent 1 4         1 27
Hydrogen gas 11 39,032 3 217     13 2,620
Hydrogen peroxide 8 1,911 1 2     9 3,870
Irritant, n.o.s.                
Isobutane, compressed or liquefied 2 1            
Lithium metal 24 3,290 9 845 2 10    
Lubricating oil 13 1,589 14 3,766     22 8,391
Magnesium, powder, metal strip 10 6         1 39
Mercuric nitrate                
Methanol, liquid 1 1         1 123
Methyl isobutylketone                
Misc. hazardous material 19 653 1 13 1 114 1 75
N-dodecane                
Natural gas, compressed or liquefied             1 373
Nitric acid fuming 14 20,827 3 59     22 6,270
Nitric acid (over 40 percent) 1 18         4 306
Nitric acid, fuming 1 2         3 1,143
Nitrogen 58 269,550 2 384 1 8 32 69,318
Nonflammable gas, n.o.s. 141 103,053 29 6,310 18 2,649 205 1,477,767
Organic peroxide, n.o.s. 2 2         2 11
Orm A, n.o.s. 2 7,874            
Orm B, n.o.s.                
Orm D, consumer commodity             10 4,619
Orm E, n.o.s. 5 11,544            
Other regulated material, liquid 3 79         1 626
Other regulated material, solid 1 159            
Oxidizer, n.o.s. 47 1,486 2 35 2 49 4 15,321
Oxygen 24 4,811 2 258     20 26,036
Poison, liquid, n.o.s. 47 5,880 4 124 10 231 1 1
Poison, solid, n.o.s. 50 258     19 47 1 1
Propane, compressed or liquefied 5 227         1 68
RAM, empty packages 68 313,080 88 159,735     17 24,540
RAM, fissile, <20 percent uranium-235 3 6,275            
RAM, fissile, >20 percent uranium-235 15 2,318            
RAM, fissile, HRCQ                
RAM, fissile, HRCQ, IR, PINS             17 212,305
RAM fissile, HRCQ, UNIR, PINS                
RAM, fissile, n.o.s. 10 36,770 1 1,659 1 195 2 220
RAM, fissile, UNIR, PINS                
RAM, fissile, waste     1 7,254        
RAM, HRCQ, special 2 4,364            
RAM, instr. and articles 9 5,875 5 91        
RAM, LSA, n.o.s. 454 1,120,758 9 465        
66 1,270,833            
RAM, LSA, waste 6 111,223            
RAM, ltd. quant., n.o.s. 209 197,911 48 57,469 107 8,176 239 64,891
RAM, medical isotopes 107 390            
RAM, n.o.s. 135 124,546 23 3,903 107 302 32 69,099
RAM, n.o.s., HRCQ 1 13,744            
RAM, n.o.s., special 58 38,376 6 89     6 216
RAM, n.o.s., waste 1 109            
RAM, U-metal, pyrop 3 529     1 11    
RAM, UOx, n.o.s. 1 2            
Small arms ammunition 1 1,013 4 4,913 2 1,237    
Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) 27 70,840     1 134 52 39.585
Sodium metal, (non-RAM) 3 65     1 136    
Sodium nitrate 3 233 1 2     3 169
Spontaneously combustible material 1 3     1 6    
Sulfuric acid 13 103,875     3 211 13 81,353
Toxic gas, inhalation hazard 16 340 1 653     7 1,675
Trichloroethane 1.1.1 8 247 2 108        
Wet cell batteries 21 27,448 2 684     81 83,084
Total 3,169 6,438,748 612 328,329 695 414,553 1,147 2,754,435
Gross weights, which include the weight of the package. n.o.s. - not otherwise specified; RAM - radioactive material. SAIC 1995a:2.

G.4 Highway Distance

Table G.4-1 presents highway distances between sites being evaluated.

Table G.4-1.-- Highway Distances Between Selected Sites in Kilometers (Miles)

Site SRS SNL Pantex ORR NTS LANL LLNL
KCP 1,599 (993) 1,259 (782) 869 (540) 1,153 (716) 2,330 (1,447) 1,293 (803) 2,919 (1,832)
LLNL 4,249 (2,639) 1,713 (1,064) 2,178 (1,353) 3,911 (2,429) 958 (595) 1,860 (1,155)  
LANL 2,605 (1,618) 166 (103) 535 (332) 2,267 (1,408) 1,220 (758)    
NTS 3,610 (2,242) 1,074 (667) 1,539 (956) 3,272 (2,032)      
ORR 531 (330) 2,145 (1,369) 1,732 (1,076)        
Pantex 2,070 (1,286) 472 (293)          
SNL 2,542 (1,579)            
DOE 1991j; DOE 1992o:3; McNally 1990a.


Source: RADTRAN model results.