Survey of radioactive material shipments in the United States

Shipments of nuclear fuel and waste: are they really safe

“…The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has estimated [2] that there were nearly 2,500,000 packages of nuclear materials shipped each year in the United States in 1975. About 80 percent of the shipments involve small quantities of nuclear isotopes for use in industry, medicine, agriculture, and education.…”