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This report summarizes the evaluations of the maximum monetary liability associated with cesium-137 shipments in the STT Casks and strontium-90 shipments in the HAPO-IA Cask. These evaluations are of most immediate importance since these shipments are planned for the month of March 1961. These liability evaluations concern the direct consequences of a release of the fission product shipment in each case, but do not cover the probability of such events occurring. The liability evaluation of the STT shipment of cesium-137, 90,000 curies per car, was based upon the following premises. Cesium is a relatively volatile material, and the entire shipment quantity can be vaporized and released as a cloud during involvement of the car in a fire of sufficient magnitude and duration to rupture the cask. This mechanism would create, by far, the greatest potential exposure of personnel and property to the fission product. |
