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In 2002, the U.S. Department of Energy and its Sandia National Laboratories studied twelve highway and railway accidents suggested by the state of Nevada as potentially severe enough to compromise the integrity of used nuclear fuel transportation containers, had they been involved in the accidents. After careful analysis, DOE and Sandia found that, in fact, in all cases used nuclear fuel containers would have remained intact and that none of these accidents would have resulted in a release of radiation.