Metal Recycle

["Miller, Mark L" <mmiller@sandia.gov>]

Perhaps we should go ahead and enforce this folly to illustrate how
ludicrous it is (and can become) if allowed to go to completion!   My
opinion only...it brings to mind the story in which the various body parts
were aguing over which was  most important.  
Mark L. Miller, CHP

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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	Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
	Institute of Toxicology & Environmental Health (ITEH)
	
If anything radioactive couldn't be recycled essentially nothing could be
recycled 
(people who have died whould be nuclear waste).  My own reflection and
opinion only,

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

Mark L. Miller, Certified Health Physicist
mmiller@sandia.gov
505-284-2107    fax 505-284-2616  cell  505-259-8557
MS-1088


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