RE: Nuclear Train -Reply

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

Have you pointed this out to the folks at NBC? Not that they'll care ...

Dave Neil
neildm@id.doe.gov

On Saturday, April 03, 1999 4:09 PM, Michael S Ford [SMTP:MFORD@pantex.com]
wrote:
> 'Sorry to disappoint the good folks at NBC, but...
> 
> 1)  Nuclear weapons are no longer transported by train in the US.
> 
> 2)  Nuclear weapons and nuclear waste aren't ever transported
> together.
> 
> 3)  You can't get a nuclear yield from a weapon just because it gets
> bumped around a little (or a lot).
> 
> Q:  How does a train *unwittingly* carry BOTH nuclear weapons
> and nuclear waste?  I guess there wasn't enough info for me to
> understand how they could make this plot even partially realistic....
> 
> 'Hope everyone's weekend is progressing nicely,
> v/r
> Michael
> mford@pantex.com
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