Cattle Story previously [ RadSafe ] Check out Story - Bomb Test Exposed Civilians to Radiation

[John Jacobus]

I believe that is was in 1978 that I attended the
Health Physics Society's summer school on the aspects
of a nuclear attack.  One of the presenters displayed
pieces of cow hinds that had burned marks on them.  As
the story goes, prior to the detenation of the Los
Alamos nuclear test in 1945, the Army had flown around
the test site to ensure that no civilians were in the
area. After the test, they resurveyed the area and
found that cattle and wandered into the area downwind
of the test site.  The cattle had visible beta burns
due to the fallout, and the Army bought these animals,
about 15 head, to see what the long term effects of
fallout were.  As the typical head of cattle are sold
off as beef after a few years, the radiation extended
their life span as the cattle were kept for 15 years.

--- Cehn at aol.com wrote:

> Let me see if I have this:  there are elevated
> radiation levels after  an 
> atomic bomb blast.  Do I have that right?
>  
> _Click  here: Story - Bomb Test Exposed Civilians to
> Radiation - AOL News_ 
>
(http://news.aol.com/story/_a/bomb-test-exposed-civilians-to-radiation/2007071614
> 5209990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001)  
>  
>  
>  
> Joel I. Cehn, CHP
> _joelc at alum.wpi.edu_ (mailto:joelc at alum.wpi.edu)  
> 


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-- Benjamin Franklin, circa 1750, on German immigration to Pennsylvania

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


       
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