Re: Article: "Fatal crash on likely nuclear waste route"

[Tim <tstead@ntirs.org>]

I felt the need to write a letter of my own...  Here

is the letter I wrote:





Dear Editor:



I read your story about a fatal car crash on I-95, a

potential route for future radioactive waste

transports and how it supposedly brought to light the

issue of transporting radioactive waste on that same

road.



I find it not only amazing that you used a tragic

incident where a fellow human being (who is probably

some person's son, father, husband, brother, and/or

uncle) lost his life in a senseless car crash but that

you have decided to capitalize on it to further a

political agenda.



Comparing that crash to one involving spent fuel is

not even comparing apples to oranges - it's more like

coconuts to poppy seeds.  Accidents happen and vehicle

crashes kill or injure millions of Americans each year

and chances are great that every road in the USA that

will transport nuclear waste has seen it's fair share

of vehicle crashes.



Nobody has ever said that trucks carrying nuclear

waste absolutely will not be involved in any sort of

accident.  To claim otherwise will be ludicrous.  The

real issue is not if such a truck can be involved in

an accident but what would happen to the nuclear waste

inside the cask should one occur.



All indications, based on actual tests and computer

simulations (which is an acceptable practice to build

cars, bridges, airplanes, and large casinos among many

other structures) indicate that all crashes which

could reasonably be conceived would result in no

release of radiation.



In other words, the consequences of an accident

involving a SNF cask would be no different than those

of an accident involving the transport of a large

piece of heavy industrial machinery.



Regards,

Tim S.



--- maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM> wrote:

> Hi All, I've taken the liberty of sending the letter

> below to the editor

> of the Reno newspaper. I hope I've not done violence

> to the data on cask

> testing, but have the impression from Ruth W's

> discussions on this that

> I've not exaggerated. Ruth, if I have, then please

> straighten me out. I

> hope some of thr rest of you might drop them a line.

> Jaro, I got a real

> boot out of your bird remark - that's why I stole it

> - I hope with your

> blessing. Their web site provides easy means for

> letters to the editor

> via email, fax, or mail at URL:

> 

>

http://www.rgj.com/helpdesk/news/letter_to_editor.php

> Cheers,

> Maury Siskel         maury@webtexas.com





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