[ RadSafe ] Claim that Film exposes ?regulatory capture? ofUSA?s NRC

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

Or pump it out of the ground and ship it to a BWR, to be processed and
used as coolant.  Then challenge anyone to find the difference in the
final H3 levels between the water from Brookhaven and the water from the
regular source.  

(actually, I agree that the low risk option would have been to leave it
in the ground, or if that wasn't acceptable, pump it and dump it into
the ocean.)

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[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Dan McCarn
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Claim that Film exposes ?regulatory capture?
ofUSA?s NRC

Fritz Niehaus at the IAEA suggested the same thing - simply release it.

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:00 PM, S L Gawarecki
<slgawarecki at gmail.com>wrote:

> Do you know what happened to that tritium-contaminated water from
> Brookhaven?  It was put in tanker trucks and shipped to Oak Ridge,
> Tennessee.  There is was fed into a thermal treatment unit at Duratek
at
> levels below their air permit limit (and within their license limit)
until
> it was gone--up in the air.  What sense did that make?  The risk of
all
> those trucks on the road was probably much greater than the potential
> exposure at either site.  Personally, I think it would have been
smarter to
> have left it in the ground back at Brookhaven to decay in peace.
>
> Susan Gawarecki
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