Re: Govt. Ends Radioactive Metal Sales

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

At 09:15 AM 7/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Govt. Ends Radioactive Metal Sales
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) - >Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said sales will not
resume until 
>weapons site managers can assure that the metals are free from any 
>detectable radioactive contamination. He said that by year's end, he 
>wanted a new standard to evaluate the material. 
>
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Isn't there "detectable" radioactive material in virtually all metals? We
use pre-WW-II steel for shielding in our counters because all more recently
forged steel has detectable levels of Co-60.

Otto

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