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Nuke waste container derailment: No leaks, no casualties <br /> <br />Early this morning, two freight trains in CSX’s Frontier Railyard in Buffalo sideswiped each other, causing a railcar carrying an empty nuclear waste container to topple onto its side. The 320,000-pound container, which was enroute to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, from the Department of Energy Naval Reactors Facility at the Idaho National Laboratory, was not damaged. It had been emptied of spent nuclear fuel from a U.S. Navy submarine. <br /> <br />No one was injured, and the DOE Pittsburgh Naval Reactors Office said the container had no visible damage. Testing confirmed no radiation was released. The cause of the collision is under investigation by CSX, the National Transportation Safety Board, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Federal Railroad Administration, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory (Pittsburgh), Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (Schenectady) Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and state and local agencies. <br /> <br />According to the DOE, the type of nuclear waste container involved in the derailment “provides extensive shielding, so the radiation levels outside the shipping container are extremely low, a very small fraction of the Department of Transportation limit.” Tubular in shape, the container has 14-inch-thick stainless steel walls and is built to withstand collisions, falls from bridges, fire, and water immersion. <br /> <br />The DOE called the derailment “highly unusual.” One industry observer said it is evidence that rail is the safest way to carry nuclear waste. <br /> <br />From Railway Age 9/22/05
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