Baltimore Tunnel Incident Comment

["Lavera, Ron" <RLavera@ENTERGY.COM>]

The following is in regards to the recent Baltimore tunnel fire.  



We transport thousands of tank cars of dangerous chemicals like chlorine

gas, hydrochloric acid and a host of other chemicals that are either strong

carcinogens or will rot out your lungs, and yet the concern is about

radioactive material.  



I have difficulty understanding the selective paranoia.



Mine and mine alone.



Ron LaVera

rlavera@entergy.com







Proposed by Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, the assistant majority 

leader, the measure would require the Transportation Department and 

the General Accounting Office to determine whether the U.S. rail and 

highway networks were adequate to handle dangerous cargo. 



"That tunnel is 100 years old," Reid said in a floor speech about 

last week's accident in Baltimore. "So that tunnel was dug through 

that area about 1900" and "has had almost nothing done to it since 

then." 



Reid said the volume of hazardous chemical transport increased by 

more than one third in the last 25 years. He said approximately 

261,000 people were evacuated nationwide because of rail-related 

accidents from 1978-95. 



Evacuations linked to rail accidents are often ordered because of a 

toxic chemical threat. 



"During that period industry reported eight transportation accidents 

involving small volumes of high-level radioactive waste transported," 

Reid said. 



He said a witness at a Senate hearing earlier in the day testified 

that 70 percent of the bridges in America did not meet basic safety 

standards. 







Ron LaVera 



RLaVera@entergy.com

914-736-8433

914-736-8419 FAX

Entergy Nuclear Northeast

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

Indian Point 3 NPP

P.O. Box 308 

Buchanan, NY 10511

 



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