Jim Redelfs wrote:

In article , "HeyBub"
wrote:

The containment vessels used to move spent rods around weigh, oh, 30 tons
and massive equipment is required to mess with this stuff.

It's true. I've seen footage of the containers being dropped from the 10th
floor onto a vertical pike, rammed broadside by a speeding locomotive, driven
at 65 mph on the trailer of a semi into a barrier of solid concrete.

Zippo. No breech of containment. The semi was "vaporized" and the massive
concrete barrier was pretty scarred, but the nuke container survived virtually
unscathed.

But it's not good enough... sigh

Did you happen to see the cry-baby, ponytail guy on the History Channel the
other night that maintained that such containers are NOT sufficient. An
accident could STILL release radiation.

Translation: No matter how well spent nuke fuel is contained, it should not
be transported. For that matter, such fuel shouldn't be used in the first
place. These are the REAL "flat earth" people. Amazing.
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JR

I know I would be more than comfortable personally driving the semi with
those casks to Yucca, especially if I have clearance to drive over any
protesters who get in the way.