[ RadSafe ] "Radioactive cocktail: Blending waste won't lessen the danger"

[Jerry Cohen]

Dave,
     I agree with your assessment and have always thought the NRC LLW rules 
were nonsense. OTOH,  if the NRC rulings were to make technological sense, 
they would likely be politically unacceptable.
Jerry Cohen



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Blaine" <dfblaine at gmail.com>
To: <jjcohen at prodigy.net>; "radsafelist" <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] "Radioactive cocktail: Blending waste won't lessen 
the danger"


> Dear Dr. Cohen,
>
> I thought you would know the answer to your question, "If the of
> concentration of radioactivity in waste is not indicative of its
> potential  danger, then what is?"
>
> The chemical toxicity, which is very often much worse,  According to
> Alexandria C. Miller's experiments published in 2004, about one
> million times worse for U238.
>
> Do you agree with that assessment?
>
> James Salsman