2004-11-11
I'M A RADIOACTIVE...
...that's what I am, or what I could be if one of these babies capsized or had the straps holding their cargo come loose | That's right, each of the containers on the flatbed trucks that drove ahead of me down CT State road # 149 was carrying nuclear [New Que Lure] waste from the decommissioned Yankee Nuclear plant in Haddam Neck | It's a winding two lane road, folks | One that meanders uphill and down through tiny hamlets and rolling farmland |
Thankfully, the drivers were not in a hurry | I saw no reason to be either | The trucks are from Maine | I don't know where they were headed, but it was away from the Interstate |
...that's what I am, or what I could be if one of these babies capsized or had the straps holding their cargo come loose | That's right, each of the containers on the flatbed trucks that drove ahead of me down CT State road # 149 was carrying nuclear [New Que Lure] waste from the decommissioned Yankee Nuclear plant in Haddam Neck | It's a winding two lane road, folks | One that meanders uphill and down through tiny hamlets and rolling farmland |
Thankfully, the drivers were not in a hurry | I saw no reason to be either | The trucks are from Maine | I don't know where they were headed, but it was away from the Interstate |
About Decommissioning Connecticut Yankee: NRC's FAQ on Decommissioning Reactors | Why CT Yankee dumped Bechtel "...due to Bechtel's history of incomplete and untimely performance and refusal to perform remaining decommissioning work." | Atty General Blumenthal says "What we have here is a nuclear management nightmare of Northeast Utilities' own making" || Sites that talk about readioactive decontamination: Decontamination procedure at an A-bomb testing ground | University of Reading | UK: Decontamination procedures | InstaCote's Decontamination Stripper |
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