Re: transportation event

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I agree.  A failure rate of 1-10 per day is

unacceptable.  That is why this is event is raising

such interest.  I bet if you search the NRC and

Agreement States records, you will find less than one

incident like this a month.  



In all honesty, I can't find anything in the ADAMS

database.  



--- William V Lipton <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM> wrote:

> A previous posting implied that > 99% reliability is

> good enough.  If that were the case, then 1-10

> package failures per day would

> be acceptable.

> 

> I beg to differ.

> 





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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