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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1391630)	2/17/2023 2:28:48 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) of 1572107

market-ticker.org "There are many people trying to claim that this derailment is the equivalent of Chernobyl in America. Nonsense. Chernobyl released long-persistence and soluble radioisotopes into the environment -- things that have half-lives of anywhere from minutes (not a huge deal) to tens of thousands of years or more (a very big deal.) This stuff, while very nasty in the immediate sense is simply not long-persistence (unlike many chemical poisons such as dioxin-like products) so while the acute and immediate danger is extremely severe the longer-term impact -- years and decades down the road -- is not. We absolutely should do something to the people responsible, especially considering that there appears to be evidence that the train in question had a "hotbox" visible on surveillance for tens of miles before it derailed and thus had to pass at least one and likely two detectors -- but was not stopped. I want to know why that happened because someone either is negligent in their maintenance or worse, grossly-negligent in that they knew the train had an active hotbox and didn't stop and correct the problem. Either way there certainly appears from my point of view to be enough liability to severely damage or even destroy Norfolk-Southern as a company, and if in fact people were acutely poisoned (likely) and wind up with cancer or dead as a consequence every single person involved must be tried and imprisoned for manslaughter or worse. No, being a "corporation" doesn't and must not get you off from this; individuals made this decision, their chain of reporting is responsible for said supervision and failed to do so and every single one of them must be forced to discharge personal, criminal liability."

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