[ RadSafe ] Treating Coal-fired plant waste as TENORM

Doug Aitken JAitken at slb.com
Sun Dec 7 07:28:06 CST 2014


An oldie, but goodie:
http://web.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html
Regards
Doug

Doug Aitken
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-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Dan McCarn
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 10:24 AM
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] 10 warmest years on record

Dear Doug:

That would mean that farmers who use water with trace radium would have to remediate their TENORM soils when accumulation exceeds a specified norm; Or that waste from most rare-earth mining would have to be considered TENORM.

Dan ii

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On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Doug Aitken <JAitken at slb.com> wrote:

> Does not a lot of this waste from coal fired power stations contain a 
> significant amount of radioactivity? And should it not be treated as TENORM?
> That would put the cat among the pigeons.....
> Regards
> Doug
>
> Doug Aitken
> Cell phone: 713-562-8585
> QHSE Advisor, D&M Operations Support
> Schlumberger Technology Corporation
> c/o Kathy Trosclair
> 300 Schlumberger Drive, MD15,
> Sugar Land, Texas 77478
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:
> radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of ROY HERREN
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 9:15 PM
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing 
> List
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] 10 warmest years on record
>
> Is there a double standard at work here regarding waste post energy 
> production?  What is the coal fired energy industries long term 
> plan/solution for the environmentally acceptable disposal of well over 
> a century of accumulated waste?  See  ‘Thick Orange Gooey Stuff’ With 
> Arsenic, Lead Found In River Near Duke Energy Power PlantandNew Coal 
> Ash Leaks Found at Duke Energy’s Buck Power Plant » EcoWatch
>    Roy Herren
>
>      On Friday, December 5, 2014 6:24 AM, "Sandgren, Peter" < 
> Peter.Sandgren at ct.gov> wrote:
>
>
>  No agenda here - just relaying what has been reported:
> http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/10-warmest-years-global
> ly It’s official: 2013 is tied with 2003 as the fourth warmest year 
> for Planet Earth since modern record-keeping began more than 130 years 
> ago. The mean global temperature rose 1.12°F above the 20th century 
> average. That means the 10 warmest years on record have all happened 
> since 1998, with
> 2010 still on top as the warmest of all. The only year in the entire 
> 20th century that was warmer than 2013, and the only one remaining in 
> the top 10, was 1998. This also marks the 37th straight year where the 
> global temperature was above the long term average.
>
> (Google News) US, British data show 2014 could be hottest year on 
> record
>
> http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/11/27/us-climatechange-heat-idUKKCN
> 0JB1EM20141127
>
> P. SANDGREN
> CT DESPP - DEMHS
> RAD EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
> 25 SIGOURNEY ST., HARTFORD, CT
>
>
> ________________________________________
>
> On 11/24/2014 12:49 PM, JPreisig at aol.com wrote:
> > Radsafe,
> >
> >        See google news --- antarctic sea  ice    .
> >
> >        Not only is there more Antarctic Ice,  but it is also now 
> >thicker,  as determined by underwater robotic vessels.
> >
> >        So much for global warming????
> >
> >        Joe Preisig
>
>
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