Re: Various Comments- Serious and Otherwise

[BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

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.



************************************************************************

You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,

send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu  Put the text "unsubscribe

radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.

You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/