Rail Shipment of Radioactive Material
You don’t hear about it as much these days as in years past, but the shipment of radioactive material – mainly spent fuel rods from commercial reactors – by trains is still a contentious issue, particularly for those folks who live near the railroad tracks involved. Well, courtesy of my newest addiction – the Life Magazine photo archive – here’s a pretty fascinating look at a slightly different sort of railroad transportation of radioactive material:
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