Re: Various Comments- Serious and Otherwise

[Tim <tstead@ntirs.org>]

But those videos are only on Sandia's RAM website and

not posted on any Congressperson's website like the

APG TOW "misslie" simulation.



Tim



--- BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU> wrote:

> 

> 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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