THE MAZE MELTDOWN / SAFETY: Nuclear shipments questioned
THE MAZE MELTDOWN
SAFETY: Nuclear shipments questionedKeay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
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Sunday’s highway inferno in Oakland has sparked calls for federal officials to take another look at the safety of their truck shipments of nuclear waste, spent fuel and nuclear weapons, as a guard against a future freeway mishap that would shower cancer-causing radioactive materials over an urban area.