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Re: NIRS anti-nuclear activity summer 2000



This is part of the anti-Yucca Mountain repository campaign.  In fact, the
fake cask is somewhat larger than the casks intended for legal-weight truck
transport, the fake cask is being taken into cities off the freeway, where
the real ones will not go (they stay on the interstate and use
circumferential highways where they exist) and the fake cask is, of course,
mislabeled because it does not contain radioactive material (is this
mislabeling a violation of a regulation?).  I wonder who is bankrolling this
effort.  I also wonder what can be done to counteract it.
Counter-demonstrations are tough to mount when you have to do it in your
spare time outside your "day job."  any ideas would be most welcome.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Friday, July 21, 2000 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: 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
>---
>The text includes the following (below) - I have given some comments. It
>seems to be a combination of psychiatric and media techniques. The diary is
>boring.
>
>My personal reflections only,
>
>Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com
>-----------------------------------------
>>"Such exposures would be especially harmful to pregnant women and the
>>babies within their wombs, infants and small children, the elderly, and
the
>>infirm - persons whose immune system is already challenged."
>
>The first part of the sentence above is about the women - not about the
>babies. Does any evidence point at a higher sensitivity for women who are
>pregnant? Sounds like news to me.
>---------
>>"Toll booth attendants are yet one more forgotten sector of the population
>>who would unknowingly be exposed to multiple radiation doses from high
>>level nuclear waste shipments."
>
>Estimated collective doses as compared to those from people handling
>potassium fertilizers or bananas? (did they ever hear about radon?)
>---------
>>"Given the tens of thousands of shipments potentially traveling the
Indiana
>>toll road, such exposures could add up quickly."
>
>What about doses from fossil fuel or peat waste that may end up in various
>materials such as concrete, roads etc?
>---------
>>"Citizen Action Coalition of Indiana has worked against the Mobile
>>Chernobyl for years. Their door to door canvass campaign generated 15,000
>>letters to the newly elected U.S. Senator from Indiana Evan Bayh in the
>>space of just several weeks."
>
>Old spamming technique? Does it really work?
>--------
>>"Lisa Gue at Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Project
>>did excellent media work, and we were pleased to wake the next morning to
>>see our rally covered as front page headline news in area papers with big,
>>full color pictures."
>
>Can any of this be seen on the Internet? If yes - where?
>--------
>>"Indiana has no nuclear power reactors within its borders, thanks in large
>>part to the effective activism and legal intervention of CAC in the early
>>to mid 1980's."
>
>Is this correct - what about coal as fuel (and radioactivity releases BTW)?
>--------
>>"We held a press conference at the State Capitol building, with the cask
>>parked at the foot of the Abraham Lincoln statue. Lincoln lived and
>>practiced law in Springfield when he was elected President in 1861. Honest
>>Abe probably would have been ashamed of the nuclear establishment's
>>dishonesty regarding high level nuclear waste transportation risks."
>
>Relevance (seems like emotional self therapy)?
>---------
>>"Driving across the tall bridge over the river, I wondered how many
>>hundreds of feet down to the water below, and how deep the water? Had the
>>U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission tested casks for such an accident?
Water
>>immersing a transport cannister could provide the neutron reflection
>>necessary to induce a nuclear criticality accident in the large quantity
of
>>fissile uranium and plutonium still contained in the waste. Such an
>>inadvertent criticality accident occurred in Japan last October."
>
>The Japan criticality accident seems to be of weak relevance (?).
>----------
>>"We held a press conference in conjunction with the Missouri Coalition for
>>the Environment at City Hall in downtown St. Louis."
>
>Did any Radsafer attend any of the press conferences or slide shows
>mentioned?
>----------
>>"The vast majority of commercial nuclear power reactors are located east
of
>>the Mississippi River, yet both the proposed "interim storage site" and
the
>>proposed permanent national repository for high level nuclear wastes are
>>located in the far West, and on Native American land. A little
>>environmental racism to go with the fact that neither Utah nor Nevada have
>>nuclear reactors within their borders?!"
>
>Comments:
>1. Isn't east of the Mississippi River also Native American land? What is
>the point (NIMBY?)?
>2. How many people live in Utah & Nevada?
>3. What are the needs (MW & TWh) and supplies (MW & TWh) for electric power
>in Utah & Nevada?
>
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