[ RadSafe ] Chernobyl

[Jeff Terry]

Count me and my grad students in for the next trip. When are you  
organizing it, Dan?

It could be like the Polar Bear club, maybe even a once a year event ; )

Their idea about the polar bear club. Maybe, the students really are  
all nuts.

I'm with Glenn though, it is tough to explain the dangling fish hooks  
for those of us older folks.

Jeff

On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Dan W McCarn wrote:

> Hi Mike:
>
> My time around the exclusion zone was in 1995-1996, and I still  
> remember
> fondly the fun I had skinny-dipping in the Prypiat River upstream  
> from the
> power plant.  Perhaps it should be a mandatory exercise for those  
> who want
> to talk about the environmental issues to walk in the zone for a few  
> days.
> My greatest fear was the possibility of getting entangled in fishing  
> hooks
> and lines from previous visitors.
>
> My dosimeters recorded only 80% of the cumulative gamma radiation  
> that my
> kids were being exposed to in Albuquerque.  I worked at the Sosny  
> Labs near
> Minsk most of the time.
>
> On a side note, my Ludlum Model 19 scintillation counter records  
> over twice
> the background radiation here in Santa Fe as my home in France, 30  
> km west
> of Paris.  This is attributable, of course, to Santa Fe's significant
> elevation at 7260 ft (2134 m).
>
> I haven't started glowing yet!
>
> Dan ii
>
> P.S. skinny-dipping == swimming without the benefit of a bathing  
> suit or
> other clothes...
>
> --
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl]  
> On Behalf
> Of Brennan, Mike (DOH)
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:00
> To: sebastian at matralab.com; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Chernobyl
>
> Not the worst article I've read about Chernobyl:
>
> http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/711752--life-returns-to-an-eer
> ie-chernobyl#article
>
> I find Timothy Mousseau's desperation to not accept that wildlife is
> doing better in the exclusion zone than it is doing elsewhere to be  
> sad.
> I can accept that barn swallows nesting in the sarcophagus might  
> well be
> affected by the high levels of radiation there.  I have a harder time
> accepting that that group is representative of the population  
> throughout
> the zone.  As for the number of invertebrates; apart from issues of
> whether or not there sampling technique was valid, there is the  
> problem
> that we don't know what the background population density should be in
> an area where human activity isn't disrupting the predator/prey  
> balance.
>
>
>
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