Re: Metal Recycle

[Ted de Castro <tdc@xrayted.com>]

Read it again!  The bill ONLY applies to "BAD radiation"!  It goes
through great pains to define elements of the nuclear fuel cycle and
clearly says that there shall be no radioactivity added through the
nuclear fuel cycle.

"Miller, Mark L" wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >
> ********************************************************************8
> 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
> 
>         *****************************************************
>         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
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