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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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