RE: Argentine judge bans US ship with nuclear cargo

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

I suspect that the weight of the cask/rail car would be a problem.  Track

beds should have weight limits, but certainly all overpass structures would

have weight limits, and these may have been the reason rail shipment wasn't

possible.



Much of the modern shipping fleet won't fit thru the canal anymore, but

dividing the waste into manageable quantities and putting them on separate

smaller vessels could get around that limitation.  So the idea of there

being a limit on total radioactivity seems plausible.



Bob Flood

NTS Dosimetry





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

From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM] 

Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:25 AM

To: JGinniver@AOL.COM; csmarcus@ucla.edu; cfrey@ssi-group.net;

radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu

Subject: Re: Argentine judge bans US ship with nuclear cargo



I thought it was too big to go by rail.  I thought I

saw a picture of it on a barge.



--- JGinniver@aol.com wrote:

> If memory serves me, the operators of the Panama

> Canal wouldn't let them 

> through.   In the early articles I read about this I

> seem to recall there being an 

> overall activity (shipment) limit on materials

> passing through the canal.   

> 

> The real issue is why they would allow it to go by

> rail.   Again if memory 

> serves somwhere down in the South East of the US

> (apologies forif I've got the 

> geography wrong but its a long way from me to the

> US) the rail operators 

> wouldn't allow passage either.

> 

> Regards,

>      Julian

> 





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