Re: Mount St Helens

[RoyalH@mir.wustl.edu]

For info on the radiation dose from the Mount St. Helens eruption try

Essien, I.O., D.N. Sandoval, and P.K. Kuroda, Deposition of excess amount
of natural U from the atmosphere. Health Physics, 1985. 48(3): p. 325-31.

Soldat, J.K., et al., Radiation doses from Mount St. Helens 18 May 1980
Eruption. Science, 1981. 213(4507): p. 585.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Burnfield <Danb@DNFSB.GOV>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 10:41 AM
Subject: Re LANL


>The Chairman of our Board remembers talking to Dixie Rae after the Mount
St
Helens eruption and getting information regarding increased levels of
radiation from the blast.  Does anyone know of any reports on this
phenomena?  Your help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you
>
>Dan Burnfield, CHP PE
>
>Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
>625 Indiana Ave, NW Ste. 700
>Washington, DC  20004
>
>Tel:  202.694.7113
>Fax: 202.208.6518
>Email danb@dnfsb.gov

Henry D. Royal, M.D.    314 362-2809
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
510 S. Kingshighway Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63110

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