Re: NIRS anti-nuclear activity summer 2000

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

The doses are calculated in the Draft EIS for Yucca Mountain (DOE/EIS-0250D)
and in NUREG/CR6672.  Answers depend on the calculation parameters used, but
for incident-free transportation, the dose per year to a resident within a
half-mile of the route, assuming no shielding at all and that the truck is
going by at at 50 mph, is about 2 mrem.  (DOE/EIS-0250D, page 6-24).  In the
event of an accident, the dose risk (since a probability term is involved,
is about 0.00007 person-rem per year (DOE/EIS-0250D, page 6-25).  The people
who are perpetrating this stuff know this perfectly well.  I trained some of
them in how to run the code used for these calculations.

This truck campaign deliberately violates the DOT and NRC regs for this kind
of transportation, the cask is larger than the truck casks, and "Mobile
Chernobyl" is a deliberate egregious lie!

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: hughesj@songs.sce.com <hughesj@songs.sce.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 3:35 PM
Subject: NIRS anti-nuclear activity summer 2000


>
>An anti-nuclear group is hauling a fake spent fuel shipping cask around the
>country.
>This is part of their diary, which is posted at
>http://www.nirs.org/roadsrails/roadsrailsdiary75112000.htm
>
>"Wed., July 5th, 2000  Leaving Chicago I hit a long traffic jam. The mock
>nuclear waste cask crawled along I-94 and I-90 past downtown Chicago, under
>the shadow of the towering skyscrapers, at 20 miles per hour, and sometimes
>came to a dead stop. All in all, the cask was stuck next to the very same
>neighboring cars for well over an hour. This is actually on the short end
>of how long Chicago traffic jams can last. During a particularly long dead
>standstill, people in neighboring cars actually rolled down their windows
>to ask me what in the world I was hauling behind me. I was able to hand
>them all our literature. I explained to them that  at their distance of six
>feet from the cask -- had this been an actual high level nuclear waste
>cask, they would have been exposed to the equivalent of one chest x-ray per
>hour in harmful neutron and gamma radiation. "
>
>Any estimates for what the actual dosage will be to the people in cars near
>a real shipping cask?
>
>Thanks,
>
>John Hughes
>
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