Has anyone else noticed the trucks running down I-44 with two large concrete containers each, with radioactive signs on them? I had heard the nuclear waste was in the works to be transferred, but I didn't think it was happening this soon.

Anybody know what's up? The concrete containers were huge, only two per flatbed trailer.

~ K

Hadn't heard of any shipments, but that would be about the size of the containers. Kinda fun watching the things they did to those containers to make sure theyre safe: had trucks and trains ram them, then just decided to pour tons of fuel on top and light them afire and toss explosives at em for like an hour. There was another one about dropping one from a helicopter or something from really high up (no damage to anything but the landscape in anycase).

Hit em with a train, and swing them into a big brick wall...

I saw some on I-44 just west of Springfield a few weeks ago. I thought the same thing, radioactive waste containers. They looked more metal to me, but I didn't get a good look at them.

I saw one of those trucks a few weeks ago on a Sunday night. I asked someone I knew about it and those things are not "low level." They are the real deal. They aren't dangerous bombs or anything because then you would have army escorts.

As for what they were I think I read in the paper over the summer that they were taking shipments from the cleanup of the old Malinkroct (sp?) plant in downtown St. Louis to a storage site in Amarillo, TX. I doubt that it is from power plants as those aren't supposed to start for years.

Yes, they are readioactive waste containers. They had a news piece on them several months ago and they showed video of the first ones coming through. They appeared exactly as described here. I see them quite often. They typically travel in pairs, with another pair a few miles behind the first.

I passed them both yesterday coming here, driving from St. Louis on 44. I left my house at about 2, and got here at about 3:30.

Hmm they seem to roll through every Sunday. Isn't it supposed to be harder to guess patterns of radioactive shipments?

I saw some, not in Rolla but a few hours away, on a Friday evening.

it's been a few months since i've seen them traveling down 44. i just saw a couple the other day going westbound. where's the nearest nuclear power plant and what's west of it?

There's Callaway and a whole bunch of plants in IL but it wasn't them. Yucca mountain isn't anywhere near open for business and if and when nuclear plants start shipping fuel it will go to Yucca directly.