Abstract: With the sustainable development of the Chinese economy, as a safe and clean energy, nuclear power is of more and more importance in the Chinese energy strategy. With the safe and reasonable increase of the nuclear power units, the output of spent fuel would thusly increase at accordingly. According to the rule of storage and transportation for spent fuel and China’s actual condition that the nuclear power plant mainly locate in eastern coastal, but spent fuel reprocessing field is located in the hinterland of northwest, problems of the huge amount, poor proximity, safe transportation of the spent fuel are all inevitable. As the link between Nuclear power plant and reprocessing plant or Final disposal site, spent fuel transportation plays an important role in the sustainable operation of nuclear fuel cycle system. With the analysis of transportation modes, transportation container, transportation regulatory and accident emergency system of spent fuel in foreign countries, the article provide some suggestions for the construction and perfection of the spent fuel transportation system in China.

Key words: spent fuel transportation, transportation container, transportation modes, emergency system