RE: Davis-Besse's replacement vessel head arrives

["Redmond, Randy (RXQ) " <RXQ@Y12.doe.gov>]

Well .  . if I had something worth $55,000,000, armed guards wouldn't be bad

idea.  Not that anyone could run off with the head.



Randy Redmond

BWXT Y-12 L.L.C.

Y-12 National Security Complex

Radiological Control Organization

Email:  rxq@Y12.doe.gov

Phone:  865-574-5640

Fax:  865-574-0117





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

> From:	Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) [SMTP:jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov]

> Sent:	Friday, July 19, 2002 12:29 PM

> To:	Radsafe (E-mail)

> Subject:	RE: Davis-Besse's replacement vessel head arrives

> 

> 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

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> 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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