{"id":2475,"date":"2002-06-17T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2002-06-17T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2002-06-17T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2002-06-17T20:43:34","slug":"warning_warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/17\/warning_warning.html","title":{"rendered":"Warning! Warning! Danger! Danger!"},"content":{"rendered":"

USS Clueless has a nice post on the relative danger<\/a> of transporting radioactives, vs. all the other crap that gets transported across the nation.<\/p>\n

Radioactive stuff has somehow become a visceral fight-or-flight kind of issue. I don’t know if it was the duck-n-cover drills of the 50s and 60s, or all those movies with radioactivity creating Giant Monsters, or what, but all you have to do is whisper about the possibilitity of a few stray neutrons and folks go absolutely bonkers.<\/p>\n

Radiation is dangerous. Radioactive waste is dangerous. No question.<\/p>\n

So are a lot of other things. Let’s be realistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USS Clueless has a nice post on the relative danger of transporting radioactives, vs. all the other crap that gets transported across the nation. 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