[ RadSafe ] Lead-lined glove tied to New Mexico radiation leak:lawmaker

[Richard D. Urban Jr.]

Jeff, just to calm the masses who might be tuning in (and we know they do)... can we say reacted 'to over pressure and caused the drum to BURST', instead of "BLEW UP"...?

WE know the difference, but connotation is sometimes everything...

Franz, they KNOW what the isotopes and contents of the drum and entire shipment were, just not WHICH chemical reaction happened first to cause the over pressure... Using the organic "cat litter" absorbent instead of inert clay "cat litter" is believed to be the 'root cause', but other reactions are believed to have happened as well AFTER the initial breech...
$0.02
radmax

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Terry <terryj at iit.edu>
>Sent: Aug 1, 2014 12:15 PM
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>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Lead-lined glove tied to New Mexico radiation	leak:lawmaker
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>Hi Franz,
>
>The current thought is a combination of Pb from the gloves, AnNOx and the organic kitty litter reacted to blow up a drum. 
>
>The blowing up of the drum spread the actinide contamination. They do know which drum blew up. 
>
>The cause is still somewhat speculative. 
>
>Jeff
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>Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> wrote:
>> 
>> Is this a joke??????? There was talk about radon as an origin of elevated readings - just another joke! Should I really believe that the US radiation specialists are not able to determine the source of a contamination? I have been able with my former laboratory to determine all kind of unknown contamination from tritium, C-14, Sr-90 on various media. Not to talk about the Chernobyl fallout, the remains of the nuclear explosions at Mururoa etc. As well we were extremely active in cases like indoor radon and Po-210.
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>> I know enough US-American collegues - some being even good friends - who are better than I was in radioanalytics. Anybody able to send a serious comment? Thanks.
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>> Franz
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>> From: ROY HERREN
>> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 10:12 AM
>> To: Radsafe
>> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Lead-lined glove tied to New Mexico radiation leak:lawmaker
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>> http://news.yahoo.com/lead-lined-glove-tied-mexico-radiation-leak-lawmaker-021048915.html
>> Lead-lined glove tied to New Mexico radiation leak: lawmaker
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>> Lead-lined glove tied to New Mexico radiation leak: lawm...
>> A radiation leak that indefinitely shut down a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was likely caused by a container of radioactive materials improperly pa...
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