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Truck carrying 6000 lbs of Uranium overturns in NC
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| 12/21/06
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Posted on 12/21/2006 8:04:13 PM PST by cowtowney
Truck carrying 6000 lbs of Uranium overturns in NC - No thread yet
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: uranium
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To: SunTzuWu
Isn't UF6 highly corrosive?
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:25:43 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: SunTzuWu
Isn't Uranium Hexafluoride a gas at STP?
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:26:07 PM PST
by
posterchild
(Spent some money on women and beer, the rest was just wasted.)
To: cmsgop
To: cowtowney
Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Everett Clendenin said the truck was carrying Type A radioactive material.
"There's no threat to the public," Clendenin said. "It's a low grade uranium."
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:26:52 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
("Well," said the Asimov Robot, "A catenary is a sag, and a parabola is a droop.")
To: SunTzuWu
Thanx for the data ... but what's it used for?
Would this be incoming or outgoing?
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:28:22 PM PST
by
knarf
(Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
To: cowtowney
"...No thread yet ..."
Then ... what is this?
To: LdSentinal
Damn you Lex Luthor! "Miss Tessmuckerrrr?!!!"
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:30:26 PM PST
by
golas1964
("He tasks me... He tasks me, and I shall have him!")
To: lesser_satan; posterchild
I don't know the answers to those two questions, but I do live here in Wilmington, I've toured the facility and watched them make nuclear fuel pellets for reactors. The TSMT trucks deliver the raw material labeled Uranium Hexafluoride to the GE facility in containers that are loaded on flatbed trailers. I-95 and I-40 are the two major routes to Wilmington.
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:35:34 PM PST
by
SunTzuWu
To: cowtowney
In volume, this is just over 1/10 of a cubic meter of U.
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:35:44 PM PST
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: posterchild
Isn't Uranium Hexafluoride a gas at STP?
nope-- it sublimes at around 130° F
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:37:50 PM PST
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: verum ago
it's probably in some sort of bomb proof container; and it's not that much by volume anyway- a hair over 5 cubic feet (uranium is extremely dense) You are correct, the containers are the weight. Non-story, other than I hope the driver is ok.
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:38:28 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: LdSentinal
Damn you Lex Luthor!
To: lesser_satan
Isn't UF6 highly corrosive?
if it reacts with water, it produces hydrogen fluoride-- which is both corrosive and quite toxic
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:41:17 PM PST
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: NicknamedBob
LOL .... only on FreeRepublic does this kind of wit show up.
To: org.whodat
You are correct, the containers are the weight. Non-story, other than I hope the driver is ok.
oh, I wasn't factoring the containers in-- 5 cubic feet of uranium weighs 6000 lbs on its own (it is very, very dense- 2/3 more dense than lead)
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:44:51 PM PST
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: cowtowney
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:52:12 PM PST
by
sasha123
To: cowtowney
Free uranium?
I want some.
To: period end of story
"Free uranium? I want some."I got mine out of ocean water.
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posted on
12/21/2006 9:01:09 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
("Well," said the Asimov Robot, "A catenary is a sag, and a parabola is a droop.")
To: JHBowden
Uranium in itself is only weakly radioactive. This should be a complete non-story. Yeah but most people don't know this. They hear "Uranium" and think Chernobyl or nuclear bomb.
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posted on
12/21/2006 9:01:54 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(Bush Derangement Syndrome Has Reached Pandemic Levels on Free Republic.)
To: cowtowney
Interesting that a gazillion rules are in place to ship all kinds of radioactive materials, but we won't take two seconds to secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws and possibly find out who ultimately may be driving these vehicles....there is a real disconnect here.
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posted on
12/21/2006 9:09:04 PM PST
by
TheLion
(How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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