Nuclear Transport Madness

Don’t look now but I think a crazed nuclear scientist is shipping radioactive garbage through your living room.  The other day residents of Halifax, Nova Scotia were told not to worry, but for the fiftieth time a shipping container carrying uranium hexafluoride had been mistakenly dropped hard onto the deck of a ship in the harbor.

Yup.  It was on its way from a bomb making plutonium processor in Britain to a plant in North Carolina.  Now here is the question:  Why unload this nightmare in Canada if it was heading for North Carolina?  Just for the fun of  hauling it through Boston, New York City and Washington D.C. on its way there?

No matter how you cut it, this is a dangerous cargo.  Too dangerous to be offloaded at a U.S. port?  Are Canadians just stupid?

And President Obama made headlines the other day after the Japanese agreed to return 700 kilograms of the eleven thousand tons of radiating U.S. nuclear garbage that had made its way to Japan.  Pay attention. That’s like sending back a teaspoonful of horror out of an Olympic swimming pool full of the stuff.  Why do Americans fight to get it back anyway?  They are up to their eyeballs in nuclear waste.  Nuclear Transport Madness.