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Abstract
The transport of radioactive material (RAM), both nationally and internationally, is vital if it is to be used in medical diagnosis and therapy or for the generation of electricity from nuclear reactors. Since 1961, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has provided the national and international regulatory basis for RAM transport. The paper, which is designed to be an introduction to the mc Conference on Nuclear Transportation Systems, surveys the current state of the art in design, operation and safety analysis of RAM packagings with particular emphasis on the situation in the United Kingdom. The overall safety record for the many different types of RAM transport, involving over 600,000 package movements per year in the UK alone, some 850,000 packages in Germany and at least 20 million packages annually worldwide, has been good and of little assistance to nuclear energy protest groups.