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scotsman
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Jobs involving radioactive material?
Does the guy in Tesco get special training for puting smoke detectors on the shelf?!
Surely that's just high order pedantry? There is clearly a world of difference between the radioactive material found in smoke detectors and that found on nuclear waste trains!
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I am pretty sure there used to be a Traction Inspector involved (also a Network Rail representative) so maybe his purpose is to accompany the protection staff on the footplate?
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Depends on the amount really. Im sure there was a teenager in the States arrested for trying to do backyard nuclear experiments using sources from many stripped down smoke detectors.
It's next to impossible for a lay person to get into one of those flasks anyway. All those scare stories of journalists putting fake bombs on the wagons are pretty much scare stories. Something like that would just mean the wagon would need a new hood and paintjob.
It's next to impossible for a lay person to get into one of those flasks anyway. All those scare stories of journalists putting fake bombs on the wagons are pretty much scare stories. Something like that would just mean the wagon would need a new hood and paintjob.
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It is a bit, but saying "radioactive material" is a bit of a sweeping statement - there are classifications to differentiate materials
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Given that the drivers are taking charge of highly dangerous processed material it's a world of difference from stacking shelves in a shop.
Having seen a comment further up however, if the drivers are BNFL they will be security cleared at some point. They would at least pass through a few layers including CRB + Enhanced / BSC / CTC. CTC is generally used for people working in close proximity to public figures.
Also, apologies to the first poster for threadjacking. Have a free banana.
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The drivers aren't BNFL, they are DRS. DRS in turn is owned by the Nuclear Decomissioning Authority.
I don't know why everyone's getting so picky about this, the fact is they do drive the trains so they must have the right ticks in the right boxes. It could be any company pulling the flasks, they'd just have the right ticks in the right boxes too. In fact I believe EWS used to do it upon privatisation.
It's not as if the drivers have the key to the flask anyway, the chances are almost infinitesimally small of anyone managing to get into one. Then they'd be faced with lots of hot radioactive water and bars of spent fuel that can't exactly be put into a sports bag and carried off.
I don't know why everyone's getting so picky about this, the fact is they do drive the trains so they must have the right ticks in the right boxes. It could be any company pulling the flasks, they'd just have the right ticks in the right boxes too. In fact I believe EWS used to do it upon privatisation.
It's not as if the drivers have the key to the flask anyway, the chances are almost infinitesimally small of anyone managing to get into one. Then they'd be faced with lots of hot radioactive water and bars of spent fuel that can't exactly be put into a sports bag and carried off.
Very true. I apologise if you thought I was being picky. I was just enquiring about something I'd been curious about for a while.
That said, just because the right boxes are ticked, doesn't mean that curiosity in the subject wanes.
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