Reply #27: Nuclear waste has high radiation levels; transportation by either rail or truck [View All]

exposes those along the way to radiation; I've seen this discussed in papers but its not something I follow now.
I used to work in the nuclear industry and also on the regulatory side, but don't follow it closely now.
But there are lots of studies and discussions of the potential risks of transporting nuclear waste by train or truck.
And there is agreement that there would be some exposure risk, and also risk from accidents or terrorism. Doing a web search would likely find some of this discussion and papers.

In general, the more nuclear materials around and the more nuclear activity, the more likely that terrorists or diversion of materials for profit could result in fairly easy availability of materials for use in dirty bombs, etc. Which could cause widespread devastation. It doesn't appear possible to me to avoid this problem if nuclear materials are widespread, on both ends of the nuclear cycle.