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Travel Trailers About a dozen protesters lined a bridge over Interstate 40 on Thursday as a shipment of radioactive waste destined for a federal dump in southern New Mexico passed through the state's largest city for the first time.

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Travel Agency Lynn Buck, a librarian for 15 years at Jimmy Carter Middle School, said the shipment was too close for comfort to several schools along I-40.

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Aloha Airlines While the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad routinely receives radioactive shipments, Thursday's was the first to come from the Nevada Test Site and to travel through urban Albuquerque, home to roughly half a million people.

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Travel Agent "It's coming through our city, our state, because we're poor, we're people of color and we're rural," said protester Alma Rosa.

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Travel Agents Demonstrators yelled, "Stop, stop!" as the truck passed under the I-40 bridge about 11:05 a.m., honking at the protesters as it went by under escort by two state police patrol cars.

Discount Airfares The waste, in three silolike containers aboard a tractor-trailer, headed east on I-40 after beginning its 1,130-mile journey Wednesday from Nevada. The route took it about 60 miles east of Albuquerque, then down U.S. 285 to Carlsbad.

Travel Deals Most WIPP shipments enter New Mexico from the north on Interstate 25, then travel the sparsely populated route on U.S. 285.

Air Fares Protester Brooke Fair said the shipment through Albuquerque is the result of negligent city government and a failure by state representatives.

Travel Insurance "The states of California and Nevada passed laws to prevent the waste from passing through their major cities, but nothing was done to protect our citizens here in Albuquerque," she said.

Travel State Gov Protesters from the Center for Peace and Justice, Stop the War Machine and Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping held up signs reading, "Code Orange: WIPP" and "No WIPP trucks through Albuquerque."

Travel Trailer They had a brief run-in with an Albuquerque police officer over the signs after they duct-taped some to the bridge. City ordinance prohibits anything from being fixed to an interstate bridge, and the protesters removed the signs to hold them instead.

Ata Airlines The shipment traveled through California and Arizona before arriving at 6:46 a.m. Thursday at New Mexico's western port of entry near Gallup. Inspectors carrying radiation detectors walked around the rig and its cargo, scanning for leaks, and conducted a mechanical inspection.

Travel Agencies They found no radiation leaks, said Gary Trujillo, the port's chief inspector.

Travel Guide Protester Janet Greenwald, who has filed several lawsuits since 1999 against such shipments, said she believes waste shipments are a health hazard and are not adequately tested for safety.

Time Travel "They're just trying to move the waste through as frequently and quickly as possible before the safety laws change," she said.

Travel Lodge The waste is contaminated with americium-241.

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China Airlines California balked at allowing the shipments in July, but the U.S. Energy Department and governors from Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico agreed Oct. 9 to allow 40 to 60 shipments this year on the route, Ralph Smith, a WIPP spokesman, has said. Four similar shipments are planned this month.

Travel Com WIPP is designed to hold defense-related radioactive waste in ancient salt beds 2,150 feet underground.

Us Airlines The shipments have been described as contaminated protective gear, tools and equipment that can take thousands of years or more to decay to safe levels.

Travel Sites By Melanie Dabovich
Associated Press - 1/9/2004

Topic: Nuclear

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