In the UK I think you will find the nuclear rail flasks are used primarily for the submarine/missile waste.
Note also that the UK rail traffic is a flask wagon and security van only. It may therefore be worthwhile manufacturing one or two nuclear flask rail wagons to move the 40 odd years of waste from Lucas Heights to the NT, whilst the majority of medical waste goes by road.
Cheers,
Hendo
The bloke down the pub disagrees.......
DRS operates all
nuclear flask trains in Britain which, until the late 1990s, were previously operated by
EWS (and British Rail before it). Destinations served include the
UK nuclear power stations at
Heysham,
Valley (for Wylfa),
Bridgwater (for Hinkley Point),
Berkeley (for Oldbury),
Hunterston,
Torness,
Seaton-on-Tees,
Dungeness and
Sizewell.
The company formerly operated trains to the railhead at
Southminster for fuel from
Bradwell nuclear power station, however this installation is now in the process of being decommissioned.
There are also occasional trains from Ramsden Dock at
Barrow-in-Furness to the processing plant at
Sellafield, carrying nuclear waste from nuclear power stations in
Japan and the
Netherlands for treatment. DRS also have a contract to supply the
Royal Navy's
Devonport Dockyard with fuel for Britain's nuclear submarine fleet. These trains only run as required. There is also a train from Hull to Sellafield which reprocesses Russian spent fuel.
Low-level nuclear waste is carried by rail in containers from Sellafield to the
Low Level Waste Repository at
Drigg, several miles down the Cumbrian Coast.
There are plans to start running trains between Sellafield and
Georgemas Junction in 2012, returning spent fuel from
Dounreay to Sellafield.
I don't think they use security vans either these days
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