RE: Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan feared

["Flood, John" <FloodJR@NV.DOE.GOV>]

I think it likely that the warnings took rad and non-rad hazards into consideration, but may well have been mainly intended to keep people away so the materials wouldn't be disturbed or stolen, thereby disrupting the investigation.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: High Plains Drifter [mailto:magna1@jps.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:57 PM
To: Rad Safety Institute; Susan L Gawarecki; RADSAFE
Subject: Re: Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan feared

 

Nuclear Powered Space craft feared......did anyone notice that the warning on shuttle debris and that the military folks were monitoring objects for radioactivity and that the truck and trailer taking items to the air base was placarded with RAM signs!  The warning about toxics, which were volatiles, appears to be misleading and that the real hazard was radioactivity.  Can anyone shed some light on just what was aboard the shuttle that could possibly cause 1000's of fragments to be contaminated to such a degree! 

 

Dean Chaney, CHP

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

From: Rad Safety Institute

To: Susan L Gawarecki ; RADSAFE

Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:29 PM

Subject: Re: Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan feared

 

This is a littlle whimsical, but does anyone remember Project Orion? Also, bet the people wringing their hands over possible accidents do not realize how many nuclear weapons were crashed in the "good ol' days".                                                Ed Battle

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From: "Susan L Gawarecki" <loc@icx.net>

To: "RADSAFE" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:22 PM

Subject: Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan feared

 

> I am weary of anti-nuclear activists seizing on every accident as an
> opportunity to say "imagine how much worse this would have been if a
> nuclear [reactor, waste, material] had been involved."  In the meantime,
> out of irrational fears, we are losing the significant environmental and
> efficiency benefits of applied applications of nuclear power.
>
> My own personal opinion.
>
> Susan Gawarecki