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Re: RADSAFE digest 3135



I missed Mr. Cohen's Mobile Chernobyl post, but I would like to recommend
the following websites which have a number of references dealing with
radioactive materials (including waste) transportation.  The subject is
extensive (it's what I am now working in) and I don't want to bore anyone
with a long lecture.

http://ttd.sandai.gov/risk/radtran.htm
http://ttd.sandia.gov/nrc/modal.htm

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@mdn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Kent, Michael D <Michael.D.Kent@nspco.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: RE: RADSAFE digest 3135


>Norm,
>
>Currently Canada is starting the first experiments in the feasibility of
>using Pu in a reactor.  My personnel opinion on stopping reprocessing due
to
>the production of Pu, was and is, another method by anti nuclear activist
to
>shut down nuclear power plants.   Britain and France currently reprocess
>fuel, and I have not heard of those facility's losing enough Pu to make a
>bomb.
>
>If a terrorist organization in the US broke into a reprocessing plant, took
>some Pu, how far would they get?  What would they do with it?  It's not
like
>you can pour some in a container, slap some charges on it and Boom!  RONCO
>instant atomic bomb.
>
>Step one, stop reprocessing.
>Step two, take away their ability to dispose of spent fuel.
>Step three, watch the power plants shut down.
>
>As far as Mobile Chernobyl - I have a common sense question for you.  If
>these spent fuel cells do not produce enough heat to warrant some method of
>forced cooling (i.e. cooling by ambient loss is sufficient), why in the
>world would they spontaneously combust in an accident.  The shipping
>container's integrity would not be compromised by the accident (proven), so
>even in the most remote possibility (unrealistic worst case scenarios) that
>it did catch on fire, the container is still sealed, so how would the
>effluents be released to the environment.
>
>Michael D Kent RRPT
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