From there, special squat blue trucks trundle the casks — each carrying 13-foot high bundles of fuel rods composed of irradiated uranium pellets — up to the plant along a two-mile, restricted road.
That was the premise, more than a decade ago, behind a Clinton administration rule that restricted road building on millions of acres of national forests in the West.
Flooding severely restricted road and rail services for commuters in the south-east today, preventing trains from travelling between London's Victoria station and Brighton, as well as closing the A23 in Sussex between Bolney and Pease Pottage.
Moreover, because of the large number of vehicles and the restricted road topology, vehicle speed is generally low, and the mobility dynamics change not as frequently in urban area as the highway.
Because of restricted road networks the available source of juniper was limited by access — only 27% of the juniper area is on private rangelands, which is the focus of this report.
But Antonia Weidenbacher, 60, a local artist who roller-skates on roads running over the reservoir, urged the formation of a citizen patrol to staff checkpoints on the restricted roads.
Routing apps are GPS guided, designed to keep drivers away from restricted roads and tight fits.
On Thursday, environmental officials responded by allowing residents who obtain special permits to drive the restricted roads during the day.
Whereas all of the Yukon Delta sites were closest to roads in the town of Bethel, a small village accessible only by air or barge, in Kenai the nearest road may have been either a major highway or a restricted-access gravel road on the oil and gas fields.
