Re: Truck carrying 'low-level' radioactive tools crashes

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

on 8/14/02 1:06 PM, William V Lipton at liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM wrote:



> The emergency response organizations probably referred to the DOT's

> "Emergency Response Guidebook."  Guide 162 is the designated guide for a

> "low specific activity" or "surface contaminated object" shipment, which

> probably applies to this shipment.  This guide states:  "...If material

> is released from package or bulk container, hazard will vary from low to

> moderate...Consider inital downwind evacuation for at least 100

> meters..."  The actual response was undoubtedly on the conservative side

> of these guidelines, but I can't blame them.



Right. They're just more misguided victims of their brain-washing!



Regards, Jim



> The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

> It's not about dose, it's about trust.

> Curies forever.

> 

> Bill Lipton

> liptonw@dteenergy.com

> 

> 

> "Michael G. Stabin" wrote:

> 

>>  Perhaps we should define a "relative hysteria index" (RHI). This

>> raised "fears of a nuclear disaster" and sent "hundreds of emergency

>> workers racing to the scene"? Puh-lease. Some dirty tools spilled on

>> the road, and the RHI = 0.97. For comparison recently..... Aug 11,

>> 2002, "Two people died Sunday when a tanker truck crashed on a bridge

>> over Interstate 4, the main route to Sea World, and erupted into

>> flames, officials said... "

>> http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/11/tanker.crash/index.html<?xml:namespace

>> prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

>> 

>> Aug 11, 2002, "A tractor-trailer carrying a cargo of peaches slammed

>> into two cars and killed six people in Oklahoma, including a family of

>> five from Nebraska, police said... "

>> http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/11/oklahoma.crash.ap/index.html<?xml:namespace

>> prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Aug

>> 10, 2002, Westport, N.Y. — A freight train spilled a hazardous powder

>> Saturday as one car derailed and was dragged for seven miles in

>> northern New York state, said state police…

>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,60090,00.html RHI = 0.0 for these

>> incidents, apparently. I read the second story over the weekend, but

>> for some reason did not become fearful of major peach disaster

>> occurring. Mike Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

>> Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

>> Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

>> Vanderbilt University

>> 1161 21st Avenue South

>> Nashville, TN 37232-2675

>> Phone (615) 343-0068

>> Fax   (615) 322-3764

>> e-mail     michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu

>> internet   www.doseinfo-radar.com

>> 

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

>>      From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM

>>      To: caspar@AECOM.YU.EDU ; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>>      Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:46 AM

>>      Subject: Re: Truck carrying 'low-level' radioactive tools

>>      crashes

>>       In a message dated 8/14/02 9:27:43 AM Mountain Daylight

>>      Time, caspar@AECOM.YU.EDU writes:

>> 

>> 

>> 

>>> http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/081402/14nukecrash.html

>> 

>>      This article revealed several things, besides the rampant

>>      hysteria:

>> 

>>      1.  The differences in packaging are either not understood

>>      or deliberately distorted by the press and/or those who

>>      inform the press.

>>      2.  Why is "low level" in quotes?  this is defined by

>>      regulation.  Again, this is a nasty little (and I suspect

>>      deliberate) distorion, as in "well they are trying to tell

>>      us it's low level, but we know..."

>>      3.  The fact that there was no radioactive contamination is

>>      downplayed -- middle of the article -- "same as in the

>>      manifest" without saying what that was.

>> 

>> 

>>      Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

>>      ruthweiner@aol.com

>> 

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