[ RadSafe ] We can't bury a few tritium atoms

[howard long]

50 years ago, "The solution to pollution is dilution" (spitting in a lake you drank out of) 
was common practice.
 Since "Dose makes the poison" was known long before that, maybe we are regressing.
 
Howard Long

Susan Gawarecki <loc at icx.net> wrote:
When Brookhaven National Lab implemented a pump-and-treat system to 
remove tritium from its groundwater, guess what they did with the 
waste? They put the tritium-contaminated water in tanker trucks and 
shipped it to Duratek in eastern Roane County, TN (adjacent to the City 
of Oak Ridge and DOE's Oak Ridge Reservation). Duratek disposed of it 
by using it as cooling water in its incinerator, adding enough each day 
to bring the quantity up to their daily permit limit of tritium releases 
to the air.

I always wondered what the NY activists would have thought had they 
known. I guess since it was out of their backyard, they really didn't 
care who got the exposure...not to mention who may have been at risk by 
the transportation campaign from NY to Tennessee. At least we got a 
little local economic boost by "treating" their waste.

Susan Gawarecki

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