VENANGO COUNTY, Pa. – PennDOT is advising motorists that starting on Monday night, January 17, a superload being transported from West Milton, New York to Wampum, Pennsylvania is expected to travel through portions of Forest, Clarion, and Venango counties.
(PHOTO: A ‘superload’ that traveled through the region in 2019. The load consisted of a Yankee Dryer that was ultimately delivered to a facility in Lock Haven, Pa. Photo by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography.)
The tractor trailer is hauling an empty fuel tank that was decommissioned 25 years ago from a D1G Prototype reactor at the U.S. Naval Nuclear Laboratory’s Kenneth A. Kesselring Site in West Milton, New York. The 400-mile journey across the state began on Wednesday and will conclude at Alaron Nuclear Services in Wampum, Lawrence County, where the fuel tank will be disassembled and recycled.
The superload is 213 feet long and weighs 294 tons. Weather permitting, the load will travel on Route 66 in Forest County to Route 322 in Clarion County into Venango County.
Traveling at a top speed of 30 miles per hour and taking up two lanes, the superload will continue traveling west on Friday night on Interstate 80 through Luzerne, Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Union counties.