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Nuclear Materials Transportation
What We Regulate
About 3 million packages of radioactive materials are shipped each year
in the United States, either by highway, rail, air, or water. Regulating
the safety of these shipments is the joint responsibility of the NRC and
the Department of Transportation. The NRC establishes requirements for
the design and manufacture of packages for radioactive materials. The
Department of Transportation
regulates the shipments while they are in transit, and sets standards
for labeling and smaller quantity packages. See Title 49, Transportation,
of the U.S.
Code of Federal Regulations .
How We Regulate
The NRC oversees the safety of the transportation of nuclear materials through
a combination of regulatory requirements, transportation package certification,
inspections, and a system of monitoring to ensure that safety requirements
are being met. See our How We Regulate
page for general information. See the following for details:
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