- Tons of high-level nuclear waste to be shipped to Yucca Mountain, over
either 24 or 38 years: 77,000
- Number of truckloads of high-level radioactive waste to be shipped
through the United States if all the waste is moved by truck over 38
years: 105,685
- Number of railcars of high-level radioactive waste to be shipped
through the United States if all the waste is moved by rail over 38
years: 18,243
- Shipments of spent nuclear fuel within the United States over the last
30 years: 3025
- Number of regulatory incidents involving those American shipments: 47
- Number of accidents: 6
- Number of resulting deaths: 1
- Number of truck accidents the Department of Energy predicts will occur
over the 38-year life of the project: 66
- Number of truck accidents other experts estimate will occur over the
next 40 years: 129
- Minutes it takes unshielded radiation from a fuel rod to kill the
average person within three feet: 2
- Number of rail accidents the Department of Energy predicts will occur
over the 38-year life of the project: 10
- Number of rail accidents other experts estimate will occur over the
next 40 years: 440
- Immediate deaths predicted should a train accident occur involving
nuclear waste, if that accident is commensurate to last year's Baltimore
tunnel fire, in which a train carrying hazmats derailed, exploded, and
burned for four days: 250
- Estimated cancer deaths in the 50 years following such an accident:
4000 to 28,000