tmi

[Norman & Karen Cohen <norco@bellatlantic.net>]

I have Mr. Lewis's permission to post this on Radsafe. You'll probably
disagree with this posting, bit here's some thoughts from him on radiation
dispersion after the accident. Posting this as a response to the recent
article on TMI.

peace
norm

"Marvin I. Lewis" wrote:

>         Chauncey Kepford, Judith Johnsrud, Bill Lochstet and I had many
> conversations on the wy that the radiation was dispersed around TMI. The
> best that we could come up with was that the radiation plume went
> straight up around the plant, then came down and 'bounced.' The plume
> touched down at random and rose then touched down and repeated. This
> allowed the radiations monitor reading to be 'averaged' in a manner that
> minimized exposures using (in)appropriate assumptions. To get an accurate
> population dosage would have taken hundreds of monitoring devices in the
> vicinity of TMI.
>         This is only part of the picture. Some monitors inexplicably were
> unable to be used.(?)The data from the chemical biological radiation
> National Guard unit helicoptering above TMI was not reported in full.
> Personal dosimeter read high because they were not 'zeroed' before use
> (like Jimmy Carter's). I am sorry that I cannot remember all the other
> interesting and inexplicable things that happened with the radiation
> monitoring.
> marvlewis@juno.com
> Marvin Lewis
>
>  --

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