[ RadSafe ] We can't bury a few tritium atoms incorporated in foundation materials!?

[John Jacobus]

Jim,
I thought that you are the Mass. State Nuclear
Engineer. 

Can you do anything to influence the upcoming decision
that will allow the trivial amounts of  radiation
contaminaton?

--- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> Friends,
> . . .
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> 
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> 
>  
> 
> 
> More radioactive Yankee Rowe waste to pass through
> Vermont
> 
>
> By Kathryn Casa | Vermont Guardian
> 
> posted August 19, 2005 
>. . .
> 
> Officials of the shuttered Yankee Rowe nuclear power
> plant near Rowe, MA, had
> asked the Massachusetts Department of Environmental
> Protection (MassDEP) for
> a "beneficial use determination" (BUD) permit, which
> proposed leaving in
> place building foundations and other underground
> structures of the reactor
> containment building, one of the few structures left
> standing at the site.
> 
> They also asked for permission to fill holes left by
> demolished foundations
> and other excavations with about 20 tons of concrete
> rubble from demolition
> of other structures at the site.
. . . 
> But in a July 29 decision, MassDEP said the proposal
> could complicate cleanup
> of soil and groundwater contamination. "MassDEP has
> concluded that the BUD
> approval to abandon-in-place subsurface structures
> and reuse concrete rubble
> as fill shall be limited to only those materials
> with no distinguishable
> plant-related radioactivity above background level,"
> said MassDEP
> Commissioner Robert W. Golledge, Jr.
> . . .
> Yankee Rowe spokeswoman Kelley Smith said that plant
> officials and
> Massachusetts state officials are in negotiations
> about how much of the 23.7
> million pounds of concrete in the reactor support
> structure will have to be
> shipped out. That determination will be made after
> officials measure tritium
> background levels, she said.
> 
> MassDEP spokeswoman Elizabeth Stinehart said the
> process used to determine
> background levels is "still under development."
> . . .

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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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