RE: Shipments to South Carolina

[glen.vickers@EXELONCORP.COM]

Is the governor just holding out for more money?  Revenues from Barnwell

have been down just a bit.  They could sure use a couple of jobs that pay

more than $6/hr.  This would be a great economic stimulus for S.C.



Glen Vickers





> -----Original Message-----

> From:	Kent, Michael D. [SMTP:Michael.Kent@nmcco.com]

> Sent:	Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:56 PM

> To:	radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject:	Shipments to South Carolina

> 

> NEW ELLENTON, S.C. (AP) - State troopers got a taste of what might be 

> in store next month during a mock exercise in which they practiced 

> blocking a shipment of plutonium from Colorado.

>  

> Gov. Jim Hodges, who is locked in a dispute with the Department of 

> Energy over the shipments, ordered the practice drill Monday for 

> about three dozen state troopers and transport police officers.

>  

> As part of the drill, patrol cars blocked a four-lane road near the 

> Savannah River Site, a nuclear facility about 10 miles from the 

> Georgia state line.

>  

> Officers declared the exercise a success after managing to convince 

> the driver of an 18-wheel tractor-trailer - in reality, a vehicle 

> borrowed from the state Department of Correction - to turn around.

>  

> Officials said they didn't know whether it would be that easy when 

> trucks carrying plutonium and escorted by armed federal officers make 

> the same attempted entrance. Energy officials have said shipments 

> could begin by May 15.

>  

> ``I think they'll turn around,'' Hodges said. But, he added, ``We'll 

> take whatever steps are necessary to keep the plutonium out of 

> here.''

> 

> 

> Maybe the Governor could call up the boys at The Citadel.  I vaguely

> remember that the boys have some experience at this sort of thing, albeit

> it was approximately 150 years ago, but it's like riding a bike.........

> 

> Michael D. Kent

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