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gCaptain Quiz - Unusual Cargo

Started by gcaptain · 11 months ago

What is it??
A free gCaptain t-shirt goes out to the first person who can correctly identify this cargo.
UPDATE:
We have a winner. Charlie of Sea Wolf Engineering correctly identified the cargo as nuclear fuel casks. The owner of the ship, Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd tells us:%0 ... Continue reading »

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iDevin
1 year ago

Looks like a container for something radioactive...

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John
1 year ago

iDevon, you're very close... but we need a name for the t-shirt.

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Charlie
1 year ago

This looks like a container for transporting used nuclear fuel, also called a mixed oxide (MOX) cask. Here is a link to world-nuclear.org that describes the shipment of these casks and the purpose built ships for transporting spend nuclear fuel; http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf39.html .

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iDevin
1 year ago

D'oh! I should have checked the image name! Oh well, maybe next time. I didn't really lose though since I learned something new and interesting.

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