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“He swung that turn as widely as he could turn it, and he had good common sense and he just stopped,” said Condit. “He did everything right.”
Spokesperson East said Caltrans is now reviewing its permitting process for that highway.
“Route 36 is a Brown route,” she said. “After this incident, we’re looking at reclassifying 36 to a Red route. That classification gives us a way to scrutinize the load better and requires a CHP escort.”
Soest, meanwhile, is being cited for a misdemeanor violation of the special permit issued by Caltrans and for an infractionary violation of the load requirements, said the CHP’s Mickelson.
With the delivery of last week’s cask, the new PG&E facility now has four of its five casks on site. The other three came up highway 101, said PG&E spokesperson Morris. As for the last one, a very strict order has gone out that whoever drives the thing here cannot take Route 36, she added.
If there is an overarching lesson to all of this, perhaps it comes from long-time activist Michael Welch, of Redwood Alliance, which pushed for the Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant’s closure once its susceptibility to earthquakes was revealed.
“I think it proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the hauling of radioactive material is the wrong thing to do,” Welch said by phone last week. “It’s unsafe. Thank God it wasn’t full and didn’t go over an embankment or something.”
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