RE: Plutonium Shipment

["Mercado, Don" <don.mercado@lmco.com>]

Yeah, but it was a whole 4.2 ounces! <<shudder>>

Yes it's Friday and I'm on antibiotics, Dayquil, and Sinutab. (You should
probably wash your hands after reading this....) :^)
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> From: 	Kim Merritt[SMTP:merritt9@llnl.gov]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Friday, January 14, 2000 1:18 PM
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> Subject: 	Re: Plutonium Shipment
> 
>  ``Because of the input of the people of northern Michigan, we've had much
> greater safety and
>  security on the shipment and it arrived safely,'' Stupak said. ``Without
> our objections, those extra
>  safety precautions never would have take place.''
> 
> 
> Thank god they raised a big stink about it!  Otherwise, I'm sure it would
> have been put in a coffee can and bungee corded to the back of some Hells
> Angel's Harley.  What a bunch of morons!  I wonder what they would say if
> they knew how many SNM movements take place in the US every year.
> 
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