[ RadSafe ] Slow news day...

[Jaro Franta]

DoE seems to think not :

http://www.hanford.gov/news.cfm/DOE/DOEStatementRabbit%20FINAL.pdf 


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Sent: November-05-10 8:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Slow news day...

         Is today April 1st?

Steven Dapra


At 11:59 AM 11/5/2010, you wrote:
>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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