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What the Experts SayCaptain Dean Harder and Dr. Freddy Chen, "There has never been an instance of any problems with such vessels (carrying nuclear materials). These vessels have been inspected a number of times by PCC personnel to verify compliance with our regulations... The vessels whose cargo present the highest risk to the Panama Canal are ... bulk carriers, such as LPG and gasoline tankers and those with over 5 tons of... (explosives) aboard. " Professor Alan Poletti, Physics Department, "The risk to New Zealand and New Zealanders from the passage of a ship carrying radioactive waste or plutonium through the Tasman Sea is negligible. It is as close to zero as any reasonably informed person could demand. " Professor K B. Cady, "The marine transport of spent fuel, recycled plutonium and high level waste is being undertaken in a straight forward, reasonable way ... it would be hard to think up a better regulatory structure than the one that exists. " Professor H.W. Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Physics, "So the upshot is that an accident of any kind is unlikely to happen ... and the environmental damage done by any conceivable accident would be thousands of times less than that done by a single oil spill." Conclusion from the Joint working group of three united Nations bodies, "All the available information demonstrates very low levels of radiological risk and environmental consequences from the marine transport of radioactive material... It was the unanimous conclusion of the Member States that there was no information or data... that would cast doubt on the adequacy of the IAEA Regulations."
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