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To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (5841)	10/17/2001 3:28:43 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Common sense, people. In the case of a port, you seal off simply a larger area, say for instance, an entire warehouse filled with 10,000 containers and you irradiate the entire area. The idea is not to search them all but rather to kill off any dangerous organic materials inside. Yes, common sense is required. For example: 10,000 twenty-foot equivalent containers occupy a MASSIVE area. "[some ships] have a carrying capacity of 4,000 to 4,900 TEUs and load of 56,000 to 75,000 metric tons. The length of the vessel can be about 900' (275 meters) and the beam---the widest part of a ship---can be about 125' (38 meters). The size of vessel is huge compare to a standard football field having a goal line of 300' (91.44 meters) and an end line of 160' (48.77 meters)." [almost three football fields not to mention the depth] I'd love to know how much radiation would be required to cleanse all these containers (which by the way are all made out of heavy steel!) in an expedient manner. The cure will undoubtedly be worse than the problem. This is not going to happen.

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