Transportation

EnergySolutions has the personnel, equipment, and expertise to assure safe, compliant, and timely transportation of major components by public highway, waterway, rail, or combinations thereof. Large components include reactor pressure vessels, steam generators, reactor heads, pressurizers, turbine rotors, reactor coolant pumps, feed water heaters, and missile shields.

Component Repackaging Expertise:   

• Replacement and/or modification of barge saddles
• Application of external coatings
• Removal of barge shielding
• Installation of rail shielding

EnergySolutions supports the simplest to the most complex nuclear transportation projects

EnergySolutions has more than 30 years of experience transporting, packaging, licensing, and managing shipping projects. Our knowledge and understanding strengthens our capabilities and further provides assurance that everything will be done in a safe manner and in full compliance with all state, federal, and local regulations.

Hittman Transport Services—a wholly owned subsidiary of EnergySolutions—offers vans, flatbeds, and sealands for dry active waste shipments; dedicated transport for new fuel; and cask transport that supports all aspects of the fuel cycle. Hittman has been in operation since 1970 and maintains an on-time arrival and delivery rate of greater than 98 percent.

Experience

American Electric Power Company—Transportation (rail and road) and disposal at Barnwell of eight steam generator lower assemblies

Nuclear Management Corporation—Transportation and disposal of six reactor heads

Southern California Edison Company—Characterization, licensing, design, and fabrication of packaging and tie-downs and transportation of the reactor pressure vessel head (150,000 pounds); transported intact via tractor and specialty heavy-haul trailer

Public Service Electric & Gas Company —Transportation (river and road) and disposal at Barnwell of four steam generators

Hittman Safety Statistics

• Averages seven million safe miles per year
• Safely transports more than 300 radioactive shipments every month
• Has transported more than 51,000 shipments without a hazardous materials incident
• Received numerous safety awards from state and national organizations including the South Carolina Trucking Association, National Safety Council, American Trucking Association, Chemical Waste Transportation Institute, and Inter-State Carriers Conference
• In compliance with DOT 49 CFR parts 172.704, 172.800, 172.802, and 172.804 for security of hazardous shipments against acts of terrorism or sabotage