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Re: Various Comments- Serious and Otherwise





Bernard Cohen 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.





Better yet:  Consumer Reports could test Type-B containers!  Nobody will

question their results.



Clayton J. Bradt, CHP

Principal Radiophysicist

NYS Dept. of Labor

Radiological Health Unit

voice: (518) 457-1202

fax:    (518) 485-7406

e-mail: usccjb@labor.state.ny.us



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