SFT has previously run a story about highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods which today are dangerously and inadequately stored at 131 sites around America, and which are currently planned to be stored for all eternity at the Nevada Yucca Mountain site. At least 135,000+ spent fuel rod assemblies need to be moved (an updated inventory is expected to be released in June 2003) from their current to their final resting place, through your hometown or someone else’s. Keeping that high level waste safe and separated from you and yours during its trip to Yucca Mountain is the job of a standardized transport container called a nuclear waste transportation cask. Although these casks have been subjected to some visually impressive testing in the past, today many people diagree that the testing performed on the casks to date is sufficent to assure safe radioactive waste shipment during thousands of transport missions across America, particularly when the in-transit terrorist threat is added to the equation. Last week public comments were heard in Nevada on a proposed NRC test protocol which would lead to final certification of the casks, clearing thousands of them to be loaded and shipped around America by rail and by truck. Written comments pro or con on this effort by citizens will be accepted until May 30, 2003 and can be submitted by email via ams3@nrc.gov or addressed to Ms. Amy Snyder at the Spent Fuel Project Office, Mail Stop O13-D13, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-001.