[ RadSafe ] FW: [NucNews] America's Greatest Atomic Radiation Crisis

[Steven Dapra]

Dec. 2

         Note the qualifier below that this tailings article is from the 
1970s.  This is ooooold news.  Hasn't the UMTRA project taken care of all 
the tailings?

         Norm:  WHY did you post this here??  (Not that I expect an answer 
of course . . . .)

Steven Dapra



At 12:46 PM 12/2/07 -0500, Norm Cohen wrote:
>Uranium tailings threaten health out west.
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>Subject: [NucNews] America's Greatest Atomic Radiation Crisis
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>AMERICA'S GREATEST ATOMIC RADIATION CRISIS
>
>By Don Munson
>
>SYNOPSIS:
>
>Ever hear of uranium "tailings"? It's a fine,
>sand-like end product from the dozens of uranium
>ore-processing plants scattered throughout the
>Far West. Thought to be of no value, or danger,
>hundreds of thousands of tons of this material
>were dumped on the plains, to be snatched up by
>building contractors who used it on construction
>jobs-like hospitals, homes, schools and churches.
>Now, it's been discovered, the stuff is
>radioactively hot and we are facing a catastrophe
>of monumental proportions.

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>** THE END **
>
>Note: This article was from the 1970's.

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