RE: Davis-Besse's replacement vessel head arrives

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

Does anyone besides me thinks that the used of armed guards is a little

melodramatic.



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS, CHP

Area Health Physicist 

Radiation Safety Branch

National Institutes of Health

21 Wilson Drive, MSC 6780

Bethesda, MD  20892-6780

USA

Telephone:  301-496-5774

Fax: 301-496-3544

E-mail:  jjacobus@mail.nih.gov

         jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov 



-----Original Message-----

From: Franta, Jaroslav [mailto:frantaj@AECL.CA]

Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:40 AM

To: Radsafe (E-mail)

Subject: Davis-Besse's replacement vessel head arrives



. . .

Instead, you gingerly lift the $55 million-plus part, called a reactor

vessel head, onto the middle of a 187-foot-long tractor trailer riding on 74

tires, cover it with a tarp, strap it down with chains, throw another tarp

on it and then crawl along for 250 miles at no more than 45 miles an hour. 

With an armed escort. 

. . .

As workers prepared the vessel head to be taken off the tractor-trailer,

guards armed with automatic weapons stood watch. 

. . .

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