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RE: Argentine judge bans US ship with nuclear cargo
I have photos of the BRP RV on a train car heading on down the line.
Larry
Lawrence E. Boing
Argonne National Laboratory
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu
[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu] On Behalf Of John Jacobus
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:42 PM
To: Franta, Jaroslav; Radsafe (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Argentine judge bans US ship with nuclear cargo
Thanks. I think what I many remember is a photo of
the Trojan NPP reactor vessel on a barge. It
certainly did not look it would fit on a railroad car
of any size. I was hoping someone else on this list
had also seen that photo.
--- "Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca> wrote:
> John,
>
> There are special rail cars, called Schnabel cars,
> for transporting such
> massive loads.
> They consist of two separate vehicles, often with
> many wheel axles, joined
> by an articulated loading platform (makes for some
> funny configurations
> around tight turns !).
> A great number of photos, diagrams and models,
> including ones carrying large
> steam generators and petrochemical refinery pressure
> vessels can be found at
> this page, for example (from Google photo search) :
>
http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/rrschnab.html
> There is no reason why the SONGS RPV couldn't have
> been transported by rail,
> IMO, other than politics.
>
>
> Jaro
>
> http://www.cns-snc.ca/branches/quebec/quebec.html
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: Thursday January 15, 2004 1:25 PM
> 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.
>
>
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John Jacobus, MS
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