Nuclear Waste Casks

I remember when they were crash testing casks to make sure they would remain intact and contain the waste in case of an accident. I assume they have now been tested to withstand terrorist bombing as well. But the government decided the safety of a few people far away from waste buried inside a mountain is worth more than the safety of the many people that live near the waste currently stored at nuclear power plants. So I don't think the casks have had much use.

John W. Coke posted
Lockwood Brothers Inc moving casks for nuclear waste.

John W. Coke posted three pictures of a cask and its special DODX freight car.

[Per David Cantrell's comment, this car is carrying an "M-140 Control Road Railroad Shipping Container used by Naval Reactors."]

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Sarah Summers Martin posted, cropped
Anyone know what this is?
Michael Moran: Department of Defense Nuclear Cask Car for carrying atomic material. It has DODX reporting marks. If it were loaded it would most likely have idler flats on either side plus an escort caboose with an armed escort.
[And a train would have just those two flat cars, this car and the caboose. There are several comments about what he speed restriction would be. Note in the photo that there appearse to be a second DODX car in this train. Some comments indicate these carried atomic fuel, instead of waste, to shipyards that support aircraft carriers and submarines.]

The following flatcar appears to be designed for the type of "intermodal" cask that John's photo at the top shows.

energy.gov, p27

energy.gov, p33

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Bill Shust: Having participated in as a small cog in the engineering efforts behind making such transport safe, I can attest that the D.O.E. has done their homework and that I have no qualms about the intended methods of getting spent nuclear fuel out of a myriad of power plants currently scattered across the country, and placed within a stable geologic repository.
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