[ RadSafe ] Radioactive contamination unearthed at former rocket test site near Los Angeles - U.S. News

[Robert J Gunter]

Not a very informative statement:  "10 percent contained radioactive
concentrations exceeding background levels."

This could easily be fill from another location or different aggregate based
on this statement alone.  Is it NORM or Cs-137?

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________________________________
From: Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com>
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
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Sent: Friday, 14 December 2012, 2:53
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Radioactive contamination unearthed at former
rocket test site near Los Angeles - U.S. News

Dec. 13

        From the NBC article:

"Technicians collected 3,735 soil samples from a corner of the 2,850-acre
hilltop lab where most of the testing was done. Of those, they found about
10 percent contained radioactive concentrations exceeding background
levels."

        Yep.  Time to panic.  No doubt about it.

Steven Dapra


At 01:14 PM 12/13/2012, you wrote:
> http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/13/15878279-radioactive-contam
> ination-unearthed-at-former-rocket-test-site-near-los-angeles


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