The heaviest load to travel on Nevada highways in the state’s history inched its way out of Las Vegas in the early morning hours of June 29, beginning the first leg of a 345-mile trip that will take it mostly along two-lane roads to the Utah border.
The transport assembly, anchored by six heavy-duty Class 8 trucks with four tractors pushing and two pulling, is hauling a 770-ton reactor pressure vessel previously used for cooling at the Southern California Edison’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, 45 miles of north of San Diego. The ultimate destination is Energy Solutions’ Nuclear Waste Facility in Clive, Utah, 75 miles west of Salt Lake City.