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Track Watch lifts Navy nuke train secrecy: spent fuel rods, toxic for 250,000 years, roll toward Idaho storage. (includes related article on Idaho state response) (Cover Story)
From:
National Catholic Reporter
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February 25, 1994| Author:
Fox, Tom; Roberts, Tom
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LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- At precisely 1:32 a.m. on a bitter cold January morning, the train, traveling on decades' old tracks and carrying the deadliest of known materials -- irradiated nuclear reactor fuel rods -- shot through the center of this town.
As was the case all along the route, the town of 46,000 inhabitants had not been told beforehand of the toxic shipment.
By contrast, some three dozen activists who had waited along the tracks since midnight, some ca...
