Antinuclear

The danger of nuclear waste transport, a topic pretty much ignored by the South Australian Nuclear Royal Commission

Jim Green, Facebook, 31 Oct 16 Numerous train derailments involving nuclear materials transport have been documented (but not in the Royal Commission’s report, of course).

Transport incidents and accidents are routine in countries with significant nuclear industries. For example a UK government database contains information on 1018 events from 1958 to 2011 (an average of 19 incidents each year). There were 187 events during the shipment of spent nuclear fuel flasks from 1958−2004 in the UK (an average of four per year) – 46% involved excess contamination and 24% involved collisions and/or low speed derailments.

October 31, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | NUCLEAR ROYAL COMMISSION 2016