Re: Various Comments- Serious and Otherwise

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

Oh Boy!!! I'm ready to see this! Can we bring marshmellows? Think of the

lottery possibilities. No dues needed for HPS for ten years!  But one of the

casks could be used in an auction to anti-nuclear folks so that they could bid

on how they will rupture one in a highway or railroad collision and fire - and

each time they lose their entry fee. The sole restriction would be no anti-tank

missiles allowed. (Though wasn't one test cask holed by an anti-tank round and

still released insignificant or no amount of radioactive content?) Or the casks

could be used as bowling balls in a windmill farm. (g) Oh well, as Bill Lipton

or someone said before, dream on ....

Happy Tuesday all, Friday is just around the corner ....

Maury Siskel      maury@webtexas.com

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Vincent A King/KINGVA/CC01/INEEL/US wrote:



> Maybe it's time to dig out the old videos and play them again.  We could

> even use the age of these tests to point out how well casks performed way

> back when they were still pulled by horses and how much more up to date we

> are now.  I also remember one of the films briefly discussing the role of

> computer modeling in predicting cask response to an impact (which the

> esteemed legislator twists into "relying on computer simulations instead of

> real tests" - are these guys good, or what?).

>

> But new demonstrations could be fun, too.  I'm thinking a 'David

> Copperfield' kind of format, or a 'reality-based' show with hand-held

> wiggly camcorder work (to interest the younger audience).  I'd buy tickets.

> Heck, stage it in Las Vegas, since that's where all the shipments are going

> (almost).  People could place bets on the outcome. (Point to ponder: how

> would the odds-makers in Vegas rate the likelihood of a cask failure? And

> how would the Nevada legislators and anti's place their bets?)

>

> Vincent King,

> Idaho Falls

>



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