RE: WIPP shipment through Albq. NM

["Nardi, A. Joseph" <nardiaj@WESTINGHOUSE.COM>]

	Bill Lipton wrote:



	"I remember a new fuel shipment, c.a. 1995, which had a head on

collision

with a drunk driver on I-91, in downtown Springfield, MA.  There was a

potential for the equivalent of a 'dirty bomb,' since the Type A packages

containing the fuel were not designed or tested to survive an accident and

fire.  Fortunately, they held up."





This statement incorporates a misunderstanding of the licensing of new fuel

shipping containers.  Although a shipment of low enriched new fuel contains

a Type A quantity of radioactivity, under NRC regs it has a fissile quantity

of uranium and must be shipped in a licensed container that meets the

accident sequence for the design and licensing.  It should not be confused

with the normal understanding of a Type A package.





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