Counties Potentially Affected by Shipments to Yucca Mt. Nevada

On June 16th 2008, the Department of Energy (DOE) released the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada (SEIS). The SEIS identified and evaluated what DOE called “representative routes” that “it could use” for rail and highway shipments of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste to the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. DOE included state maps showing these representative routes, and tables estimating the number of rail and highway shipments through each state, in Appendix G of the SEIS. In order to assess the potential impacts on counties, the author of this report converted the representative routes into a format used by the Maptitude Geographic Information System software developed by Caliper Corporation. County data was downloaded from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/2007/ on 6/24/2008. The routes were overlaid onto the Counties and those districts that are traversed by SEIS routes were selected. Those areas that are traversed by the SEIS rail and/or highway routes are identified in this report. The total 2005 Census estimated population of the counties affected by these shipments is: 161,016,352 persons. This report was prepared for the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects.

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