RE: Response to "Atomic Train"

["Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

I saw what I could stomach of the first part of the movie last night and
wrote a blistering critique to NBC.  The filmmakers don't even seem to know
how air brakes on trains work, how manifests are handled, how hazardous
materials are transported, where Denver is, what the approaches to Denver
are, what centripetal force would do to a train going 80 mph around a curve,
what the roads out of Denver to the east are like, what Denver looks like.

I am in a way grateful that it is a really lousy movie (as one reviewer
said: "The train engine shows more emotion than Rob Lowe.")  However, THERE
WAS NO DISCLAIMER ABOUT THIS BEING FICTIONAL!

Clearly only my own opinion

Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
Sandia National Laboratories 
MS 0718, POB 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
rfweine@sandia.gov


-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Axt [mailto:gordon-axt@uiowa.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 1:39 PM
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Subject: RE: Response to "Atomic Train"


Two Words:  "Atomic Lame"

I thought Rob Lowe had bottomed out with his "home-made" movies, but
apparently I was wrong.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Ninni Jacob [SMTP:Ninni_Jacob@brown.edu]
Sent:	Monday, May 17, 1999 12:56 PM
To:	Multiple recipients of list
Subject:	Response to "Atomic Train"


An ANS member responded to the "Atomic train " in the Washington Times.

The article is entitled:
"NBC is more dangerous than Nuclear Energy"

For a copy of the article, look up the American Nuclear Society website at:

www.ans.org





Ninni Jacob, CHP
Radiation and Biological Safety Officer
Office of Risk Management
Brown University - Box 1914
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Providence, RI 02912

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email: Ninni_Jacob@brown.edu
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