RE: Various Comments- Serious and Otherwise

["Estabrooks, Bates (IHK) " <IHK@Y12.doe.gov>]

True.  Running a truck into a wall, and crashing a locomotive have been done

and filmed.  But that was long ago, and out of the public eye.  We live in a

society dominated by the visual media industry.  My approach would be

well-promoted (maybe we could get Don King), high visual impact, and

real-time!



Bates Estabrooks



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	Subject:	Re: Various Comments- Serious and Otherwise





	On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Estabrooks, Bates (IHK)  wrote:



	> First, much has been made about the potential risks of

transporting SNF over

	> the nation's highways.  It seems to me that the nuc. industry

could trump

	> the "antis" by staging a very public (advertised in USA Today,

etc.) crash

	> of a truck carrying a Type-B package full of some innocuous

substance

	> (Talcum, say).  Build in a nice gasoline fire to enhance the

problem. The

	> results, I'm sure, would confirm the safety of the way we

transport

	> high-risk radioactive material.  Admittedly this would be

expensive and

	> audacious, but the "antis" never seem to worry about those things

in their

	> efforts to distort the truth.



		--Why isn't running a truck into a solid wall, or having a

	railroad locomotive crash into it just as effective? These things

have

	been done and there are films on them available.

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