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

[Muckerheide, James]

Regressing!?

The Short History of Medicine

2000  B.C.  --  Here, eat this root.
1000  A.D.  --  That root is irreligious.  Here, say this prayer.
1850  A.D.  --  That prayer is superstition.  Here, drink this potion.
1940  A.D.  --  That potion is snake oil.  Here, swallow this pill.
1985  A.D.  --  That pill is ineffective.  Here, take this antibiotic.
2000  A.D.  --  That antibiotic is artificial.  Here, eat this root.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of howard long
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 12:51 PM
> To: Susan Gawarecki; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] We can't bury a few tritium atoms
> 
> 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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