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If
NASA decided to call Columbia wreckage RAM to protect its quality as
forensic evidence knowing that it is not RAM, then that is a
most inappropriate decision and application of the spirit of radioactive
material safety regulations. Worse, the inordinate fear that much of the public
has about radioactivity can only be made worse. Not one to
second-guess NASA because of their being under duress from the accident,
but NASA and the new Homeland Security Department ought to set the record
straight with the public about Columbia 'RAM"
immediately.
-----Original Message-----
From: Flood, John
[mailto:FloodJR@NV.DOE.GOV]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 6:56
AM
To: RADSAFE
Subject: RE: Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan
feared
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!
----- Original Message -----
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
----- Original Message -----
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
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