Friday, February 11, 2005

Rules aren't for everybody

A Halliburton Co. shipment of radioactive material went missing in October but the company didn't alert government authorities until this week, Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials said Thursday.

The material — two sources of the element americium, used in oil well exploration — was found intact Wednesday in Boston after an intense search by federal authorities. NRC and Halliburton officials say the public never was in danger.
  Yahoo News article

No, but we are in danger if Lynne Stewart is on the streets.
NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said Halliburton did not notify the agency about the missing material until Tuesday. Depending on the material, government rules require notification either immediately or within 30 days.
I'm not a math whiz, but I think last October misses either of those requirements.
Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall blamed the company's shipper, saying it never alerted the Texas-based energy company that the material was missing until Tuesday. Halliburton then immediately contacted the NRC, she said.
Dear Wendy. Whatever they're paying her, it's not nearly enough. She's been the Halliburton official liar apologist for so very many things the past few years. She's going to need to purchase state of the art, eternity guaranteed, cooling equipment for her afterlife.
Hall said the material was encased in a double-walled stainless steel cylinder, locked in a steel transport container designed to protect workers.

"All of this was found intact, and we have no information that leads us to believe that the public or environment were in danger," Hall said.
Perhaps not, but they had no information at all about it for several months. It could have been in a different condition during that time.
Homeland Security Department officials and the FBI began a search after the materials were reported missing.
And why were those agencies not required to report it to the obviously useless NRC? Have anything to do with who lost it?

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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