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Re: WIPP shipment through Albq. NM
While the protestors may seem irrational, it is generally a good policy to avoid
sending placarded shipments through a city, if an alternate route is available. We
generally send our waste shipments on the bypass loops around major cities. I know
there are some cases where there is no good alternate route. The most high profile
one is that you have to go thru New York City to get out of Long Island. Maybe, Albq.
has no good bypass routes.
I remember a new fuel shipment, c.a. 1995, which had a head on collision with a drunk
driver on I-91, in downtown Springfield, MA. There was a potential for the equivalent
of a "dirty bomb," since the Type A packages containing the fuel were not designed or
tested to survive an accident and fire. Fortunately, they held up.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
Jaro wrote:
> Thank you very much for the report Steven -- IMO, its important to document
> the insanity of the antinuke crowd.
>
> Jaro
>
> http://www.cns-snc.ca/branches/quebec/quebec.html
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Steven Dapra
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:55 PM
> To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: WIPP shipment through Albq. NM
>
> Jan. 9
>
> A WIPP truck passed through Albuquerque today taking a load of transuranic
> waste from the Nevada Test Site to the WIPP site near Carlsbad, NM.
> According to an article in the Albq. Journal, one of the freeway overpasses
> had "about a dozen protesters and a similar number of reporters" waiting
> for the truck to go by. A television news helicopter pursued the truck as
> it went through Albuquerque, and its passage through the entire width of
> Albuquerque - 15 to 20 miles - was broadcast live at about 11:00 a.m.
> (They pre-empted Jerry Springer and soap operas for a WIPP truck??)
>
> A City Councilor called a news conference this morning to "discuss his
> efforts to stop the shipments." He plans to introduce a memorial at the
> upcoming City Council meeting "seeking council backing to get the shipments
> diverted away from Albuquerque."
>
> To its credit, on its 6:00 news this afternoon, a local television
> stations noted that there are other far more dangerous cargoes that pass
> through Albuquerque every day, and that the safety-minded protesters say
> nothing about these shipments (gasoline, propane, etc.). (I was told this
> by a friend of mine, I did not see the broadcast.)
>
> Steven Dapra
> sjd@swcp.com
>
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