Re: UF transport Problem in Illinois?

[gplahti@dukeengineering.com]

try again ---


see  http://chicagotribune.com/news/metro  "False Fears Jam Kennedy" ---   in
part --

"The truck, which bore the name RSB Logistic of St. Louis on its side and had
license plates
from both Missouri and Oregon, was  traveling south on the Kennedy when it
reached the
Hubbard's Cave area about 4:30 p.m.

"It was transporting approximately 25 empty containers, each marked radioactive,

when it smacked the top of the Hubbard Street bridge, overturned and dumped the
containers, according to Bob Fleischmann, an official with the Illinois
Department of Transportation.

"The 1,400-pound canisters once held a gas called uranium hexaflouride,
according to the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety. But a spokesman for the
Illinois State Police said the containers had been "emptied, purged and cleaned"
 prior to the accident."

 For you non-Chicago folks, Hubbards Cave is a long underpass (tunnel) which
carries the Kennedy
Expressway under Hubbard Street very near downtown Chicago (a.k.a. tthe Loop).

Jerry Lahti
Naperville Illinois  [a western suburb of Chicago]
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Any heard much about the traffic accident in Illinois involving some UF
cylinders, being to tall for a tunnel... ???

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