Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station, California

Yucca Mountain
Nuclear Fuel Locations and Associated Rail Facilities
Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station, California
Yucca Mountain: Nuclear Fuel Locations and Associated Rail Facilities
Final Report
October 1, 2010
VII. RANCHO SECO NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, CALIFORNIA
Facility Description
The Rancho Seco facility is located in southeast Sacramento County, about 25 miles southeast of
downtown Sacramento. It was owned and operated by the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD)
between 1977 and 1989 and by the California Department of Water Resources/SMUD from 1989 to present.
The 2,100 acre site was purchased in 1966. Now decommissioned, the plant operated from April 1975 to
June 1989 and was closed by public vote in 1989, which was 19 years prior to the date that its operating
license was set to expire. Over time, the plant has been partially converted for use as a public access park.
As of 2009, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission authorized the release of the majority of the site for public
use. Eleven acres of the property remain dedicated for the storage building that houses low level nuclear
waste and the dry cask spent fuel storage facility.
The first of the following maps entitled “Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station” shows the plant’s
location south of state highway 104 and of the east/west running Union Pacific track. Population centers
and at-grade road/railroad crossings in the vicinity are noted. The second map illustrates (at a larger scale)
the plant itself and proximity to the adjacent track to the north.
This property is located on the Ione Subdivision, a 27 mile Union Pacific branch line that originates at Galt
and ends in the town of Ione, California. The line is served by a thrice weekly local freight train. The main
sources of traffic are lumber and various rock products from a quarry located at Clarkson. There is a spur
line into the site from the main track. Freight train speed on the main track, which is located approximately
two miles from the facility, is 25 miles per hour.
Rail Routes
Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station to Hazen Map - This facility is located on UP’s Ione Branch.
The material would be transported westward to Galt which is the junction with the UP’s Valley Line between
Stockton and Sacramento. Due to the track layout at Galt, the UP would move this traffic southward to the
freight yard at Stockton to be placed into a northbound train en route through Galt and Sacramento to
Roseville. At Roseville, the load would be placed into an eastward train, traverse Donner Pass and Reno en
route to Hazen.
Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station to Caliente Map – UP would move this traffic as described
above to Roseville. At that point, the loads would be handled eastward over Donner Pass and through
Reno to Ogden thence southward to Salt Lake City an onward southwestward to Caliente.
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Approximate Location
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Probable Routes*
Railroads
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Union Pacific Railroad
All Other Railroad
Companies
Nuclear Fuel
Locations' Status
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Open
* Represents the most "probable" direct route. Actual route to be
determined through multiple agencies and stakeholders, N.I.C.
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