RE: Various Comments- Serious and Otherwise

[Jack_Earley@RL.GOV]

They are available, just as the HPS website is. But anyone who ran a

business hoping to survive on what's available won't last very long. If it's

not advertised, i.e., shoved in front of the consumers' faces, it might as

well not exist. That's how the nuts survive and thrive, and it's the only

way rational people will prevail prior to extended rolling blackouts. To

borrow a phrase, all it takes for nuts to prevail is for rational people to

do nothing.



Jack Earley

Radiological Engineer





-----Original Message-----

From: BERNARD L COHEN [mailto:blc+@PITT.EDU]

Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 7:45 AM

To: Estabrooks, Bates (IHK) 

Cc: 'radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu'

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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