[ RadSafe ] " Technology to detect radiation has progressed "

[Steven Dapra]

Aug. 23


At 07:17 AM 8/23/07 -0400, nssihou at aol.com wrote:
>Most scrap yards now have radiation monitors and check metal as it enters 
>the site. Unfortunately, the radioactive material is not always seen if 
>shielded by a lot of other steel scarp. Texas has had several 
>source  melts over the last few years. Before radiation monitors, I'm sure 
>lots of radioactive incidents went undetected.
>
>Texas has lots of NORM waste generation in oil field tubulars and tanks. 
>The state has set the scrap content levels of NORM that can be melted. For 
>Tubulars and tanks with higher NORM content, the NORM scale is removed for 
>disposal at radioactive land disposal sites.
>
>The bigger problem is that we have larger and larger numbers of radiation 
>monitoring devices and fewer and fewer qualified persons operating them.
>
>Once Homeland Security gets the interstate highway monitors in operation, 
>cops will be pulling over trucks that set off alarms. The feds are going 
>to start finding things they didn't realize existed.

         This is more Homeland "Security" nonsense.  The problem on the 
highways is drunk drivers, not NORM.  Has NORM ever killed anyone?  Has it 
ever endangered other drivers by weaving all over the road?  Drunk drivers 
kill some 25,000 people every year, and that doesn't begin to count the 
injured, and the devastated families.   No, I have no personal interest in 
this.  I have never been directly affected by a drunk driver, nor to my 
knowledge has any of my immediate family.

         This obsession with rad is beginning to border on lunacy.

Steven Dapra
sjd at swcp.com


>And if the marketers wise up, it wont be that long before your mobile 
>phone will have an optional radiation detector available to protect you 
>and your family.   LOL
>
>Bob Gallagher
>NSSI
>713 641-0391