RE: WIPP shipment through Albq. NM

["Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

> defending nuclear power plants with fog.

> You are apparently using this concept to defend your arguments.



I think everyone here is making fairly clear-headed arguments, we just

have a difference of opinion. Speaking as a member (so I don't have to

speak as moderator, hint, hint), I think we could all tone down the

rhetoric and focus less on personalities and more on issues and have a

better discussion.



> The issue isn't which is more dangerous - a gasoline tanker 

> or a TRU waste shipment. It's what reasonable actions can be 

> taken to assure public safety AND address public concerns.  



Yes, *reasonable* is exactly the issue here, and is a long running

discussion on this list. Are we making the best use of funds when we go

to these lengths to protect against relatively low risk activities and

ignore other relatively high risk activities? As has been documented

here and elsewhere many times, the actual number of real human beings

who are poisoned or die each year from accidents with chemical toxic

agents is high. Could we not spend some more attention there and less on

these already very heavily regulated and protected low and intermediate

rad waste shipments? Do we need media helicopter crews trailing every

rad waste shipment in the US as if they were the infamous white Ford

Bronco? Many think not, and are not "elitist" for saying so, they're

just making a reasonable argument.



Mike



Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 

Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 

Vanderbilt University 

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