[ RadSafe ] Slow news day...

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

Not a particularly well written article; probably because the reporter
had not a clue about what they were writing about.  

The $300,000 was for the aerial rad survey of 14 square miles of burial
grounds.  This is less than half of the cost of doing the survey "boots
on the ground".  The survey is part of deciding what should be done
about the burial grounds.  That it turned up a highly contaminated
rabbit indicates there is an issue that needs to be addressed; that they
only have one (so far) indicates that it might be taken care of now,
before it gets bigger and more expensive. 

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Hardeman
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 1:07 PM
To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Slow news day...

Almost as slow as when the media reported spending $300K in stimulus
funds to look for radioactive rabbit poop at Hanford.
 
See
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091021-radioactive-rabbi
t-droppings-nuclear-obama-stimulus.html

 
Jim Hardeman

>>> "Philip Egidi" <pvegidi at smtpgate.dphe.state.co.us> 11/5/2010 14:59
>>>

RICHLAND, Wash. * A radioactive rabbit was trapped on the Hanford
nuclear reservation, and Washington state health workers have been
searching for contaminated rabbit droppings. 
The regional director of the Office of Radiation Protection, Earl
Fordham, said Thursday that no contaminated droppings have been found
in
areas accessible to the public.
The Tri-City Herald reported that officials suspect the rabbit sipped
some water left from the recent demolition of a Cold War-era building
used in the production of nuclear weapons.
The rabbit was trapped in the past week and was highly contaminated
with radioactive cesium. It was killed and disposed of as radioactive
waste.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40027229/ns/us_news-environment/ 

Phil Egidi
CDPHE
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