27 Aug 07 How Radioactive Material Gets Transported
Last Friday some friends and I took the dumbest road trip ever. We drove 6 hours to Alpine Valley Music Theater near Milwaukee, Wisconsin to catch a 2 hour Rage Against The Machine show, and then drove 6 hours straight back. It seemed like a good idea at the time, and the show was definitely worth it. I hope for the sake of the 12 hours of driving that they never play a show again, but I think they probably will tour again. Anyway, as we were driving along I-94 I noticed an odd looking truck, and the closer I got the more creeped out I got.
It looked something like this from behind (links go to bigger version):
As we pulled alongside:
Is that what I think it is? I need a closer look:
Radioactive Material Uranium Hexaflouride Fissile, UN 2977. Holy balls.
This was a car after the truck drove by it:
Adam’s thoughts on the matter:
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Reader's Comments
Maybe you were on one of these routes?
You can see more at http://www.stopnewnukes.org
Sorry, the photo link didn’t show up. Here it is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stopnewnukes/1032230390/
Just to think that the truckie would be getting a extra $1 a hour for carting dangerous goods.
Uranium Hexaflouride? No need to worry about radiation exposure killing you. If that leaks (it’s a gas), your lungs/skin will melt in a couple seconds (chemical reaction, flourine is bad stuff).
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You are an idiot. Cars dont catch fire when fissile Uranium drives past.
Perhaps if you use your internet connection to look up what uranium hexafloride really is, it will put your mind to rest. In case you are too busy, it poses no danger and is not really dangerously radioactive (lots of things are radioactive, including all smoke alarms in your dorm, but it does not mean they are radioactive to the extent of being dangerous).
In short, this is BS.
That’s scary
You sure the car wasn’t on fire before the truck passed?
The thing that scares me is that this radioactive waste is being transported and there’s like no police escort or anything. Some terrorist or psycho could just jack the truck and have several tons of radioactive waste at their hands to possibly make a dirty bomb. Yikes! Btw did you notice an odd green auroa, or have you recently grown extra limbs?
Looks like the MIBs already purged your blog of “one” image… Now I’m curious as all heck to find out what it was…
Google “9196/AF-96″ and check out http://www.rampac.com/certificates/1019196.PDF
http://cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/14922
For more accurate information on URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE, FISSLE.
Looks like its the fissile
I can unequivacally state that the highway as cited is incorrect. The correct roads as used are about 500 miles away from where you state they are. ANY OTR driver will tell you that! What you really want to see are the vehicle that haul the actual nuclear weaponry components (also known by sight to a typical OTR driver). No big deal…plus they are ALWAYS with armed escorts! If I told you anymore Id have to (redacted) ya. Stop promoting fear.
Hey! Osama, see what you have been missing boy!!!
What a present here for you.
What you saw on that truck were shielded cargo containers for Uranium Hexafluoride (hex)- or chemically known as UF6. The UF6 is an extremely reactive gas contained in gas cylinders which are inside the shielded containers you photographed… note the seals on the containers?
I have never noted a “fissile” label before on a container – if it is real that means that what you saw was carrying “enriched” UF6, the stuff that comes out of a gas enrichment cascade similar to the type that Iran is playing with now. Typically, the enrichment level is kept fairly low and the gas is used to make pellets for power generating reactors.
No way would this be highly enriched (which the US is concerned Iran is doing or planning to do)- you wouldn’t have been able to get within a mile of that truck if it was! And it is VERY unlikely such a cargo would be anywhere near Alpine Valley (Saw Heart there in 1979- great place for a show!…geez, now I dated myself…..)
And don’t believe the anti-nuke nuts- that was NOT nuclear waste! I would bet that given where you saw it, the contents of that truck eventually would have wound up in the Zion, Il power plant, via a refinery, where it would help in reducing the “carbon footprint” that so many of the flat earthers are worried about today, by contributing absolutely no emissions while generating the power that keeps their IPhones charged.
Rage against the machine…I haven’t heard that name in awhile. As their audience gets a little older, does the moshing stay the same? I might have been able to survive a concert in 96′ when i was 17, but not so sure about now.
It was a joke moron.
That said, it was just a few miles on the road prior to the truck having passed it. Same road, same trip, same camera.
Not only did I look it, but I linked it.
Quote:
“Corrosive. The substance is corrosive to the eyes, the skin and the respiratory tract. The substance may cause effects on the kidneys, resulting in kidney impairment and tissue lesions. Exposure at low level may result in death.”
So is it BS? If so, you won’t mind storing that stuff in your garage.
Some terrorist or psycho would be dead within minutes after opening the containers.
The real danger is people like you who lack the brains to figure it out for yourself by using Google to do your own research. You must be one of those P.T. Barnam was talking about.
I’m not sure if you’re referring to the stopnewnukes site, or my post. If you’re referring to I-94, I can unequivocally state that you are wrong. I TOOK the pictures, I know where I was.
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