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far more stringent for the surveillance and integrity of containers carrying nuclear waste than existing regulations for other hazardous substances such as chlorine.
Tests on the casks ordered by the Department of Transportation are at once conclusive and comforting. Trucks carrying the containers have been crashed into concrete walls at 80 mph. Others have been parked at railroad crossings and struck broadside by rocket-propelled locomotives. Casks have been dropped from airplanes at an altitude of 2000 feet. And they have been dropped on steel rods to test their ability to withstand puncture. In none of these tests has there been any evidence of radioactive release.
Virginia Tech’s Dennis Price is chairman of the National Academy of Science’s committee on the transportation of hazardous materials. Price points out that the public is in far greater danger from the transportation of substances other than nuclear waste. Gasoline is the chief culprit, causing more deaths, injuries and property damage than any other hazardous material.
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