Re: Type B cask releases

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

At 05:46 PM 9/1/98 -0500, Ruth Weiner wrote:
>
>     Dear RADSAFERs,
>     
>     My earlier posting was apparently in error.  There were 91 accidents 
>     involving Type B containers between 1971 and 1996, and one did involve 
>     a release.  This was a case in which container holding a radiography 
>     camera fell off a truck and was run over by a rental car, releasing 
>     the source material.  The accident was not included in the table I 
>     cited.  Sorry for the confusion.
>     
>     Ruth Weiner
>     rfweine@sandia.gov
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September 2, 1998
Davis, CA

Dear Ruth:

This one release does not appear to be a release from a Type B cask. Can
you clarify how this relates to releases from type B casks?

Thanks...

Otto
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