[ RadSafe ] Indian Point in the news - Hudson fish near nuke plant contain strontium-90

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Those Sr-90 concentrations are probably about the same as in my old bones.
Turned 60 last October,
Bob C

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnston, Thomas" <Tom_Johnston at nymc.edu> 
Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:18 am 
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Indian Point in the news - Hudson fish near nuke plant contain strontium-90 
To: Academic-Medical Radiation Safety Officers listserve <amrso at mailman.mcw.edu>, radsafe at radlab.nl 

> Hudson fish near nuke plant contain strontium-90 
> 
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> 
> Greg Clary 
> The Westchester Journal News 
> 
> 
> 
> (January 16, 2007) - BUCHANAN - In what could be the Lower Hudson 
> Valley's next environmental controversy or just a laboratory mistake, 
> fish in the Hudson River have been found to contain traces of 
> strontium-90. 
> 
> The radioactive isotope was discovered leaking almost a year ago 
> at the 
> Indian Point nuclear power plants, and tests on 12 fish found four 
> withdetectible amounts. 
> 
> The tests were conducted for Entergy Nuclear Northeast, which owns the 
> plants, after researchers pulled the fish from the river in late 
> summer- six from more than 10 miles upriver in the Newburgh-Beacon 
> Bridge area 
> and the rest from around Indian Point. 
> 
> "Certainly it's of concern that the strontium was found in 25 
> percent of 
> the sampling," said C.J. Miller, spokeswoman for Rockland County 
> Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef. 
> 
> "The origin of that is something that we need to determine. If 
> indeed it 
> is coming from the plant itself, then that needs to be remedied 
> immediately." 
> 
> The company has spent millions to find and stop the leaks, but so 
> far it 
> has been able only to capture much of the irradiated water without 
> locating the source. 
> 
> Three of the upriver fish had strontium levels ranging as high as 24.5 
> picocuries per kilogram, while one taken from near the plant had 18.8 
> picocuries per kilogram, according to results first released late last 
> week. 
> 
> Picocuries measure radioactivity in the tiniest amounts. Although the 
> Nuclear Regulatory Commission doesn't set safe minimums for fish, 
> Westchester County officials said the mean detectible level is 10 
> picocuries per kilogram. 
> 
> Public officials, regulators and plant owners are eager for more 
> sampling to determine if the results are merely false positives, which 
> are more likely at low levels, or something more significant. 
> 
> GCLARY at lohud.com 
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> Thomas P. Johnston 
> 
> Radiation Safety Officer 
> 
> New York Medical College 
> 
> Valhalla, NY 10595 
> 
> 914-594-4448 office 
> 
> 914-594-3665 fax 
> 
> 914-557-5950 mobile 
> 
> tom_johnston at nymc.edu <mailto:tom_johnston at nymc.edu> 
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