[ RadSafe ] Treating Coal-fired plant waste as TENORM

[Nathan Sutherland]

The radon angle on this is an interesting one, in canada
drilling/fracking operations look to be getting ahead of the game in
their employ of RSO's on site.  To many I have spoken with, it is
looking likely that this practice could become something that ends up
being mandated by our regulator.  dose received would depend highly on
the geography, and a quick google seems to indicate that radon levels
transported to residential customers would be a factor of the geology
of the source and relative distance to the operation (decay time).
Seems like at a gas fired plant, it would be difficult to get any
representative numbers for the industry as a whole, but given how
close the stations are to residential neighbourhoods id love to hear
some more information on this!

-Nathan

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM, ROY HERREN <royherren2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes indeed, Doug's referenced article sums up the double standard between the waste from coal and that of nuclear power rather nicely.  One can't help but wonder how natural gas would fair by comparison against nuclear power.  One good part about burning huge quantities of natural gas is that one isn't left with mountains of left over ash, however I am left to wonder about he quantity of radon gas emissions from burning natural gas.  Is the a potential for huge plumes of radon daughter products falling out from the natural gas power plants smoke stacks?  While this question may well sound alarmist, it's not outside the realm of possibilities when one considers previous stack emissions from copper smelters, wherein adjacent smelter town communities were heavily contaminated from lead fall out.
>  Roy Herren
>
>      On Sunday, December 7, 2014 5:28 AM, Doug Aitken <JAitken at slb.com> wrote:
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>
>  An oldie, but goodie:
> http://web.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html
> Regards
> Doug
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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
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> 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.
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> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Doug Aitken <JAitken at slb.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> c/o Kathy Trosclair
>> 300 Schlumberger Drive, MD15,
>> Sugar Land, Texas 77478
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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 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
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
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>> 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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