RE: Lab Tests Indicate Plutonium in Air

[Alan Ibbitson <ibbitsoa@ssyrv4.upstate.edu>]

You might try the Hanford web site at hanfor.gov or this link
http://www.hanford.gov/envmon/analysis.html

It was my experience when I worked there that the local news papers were
very accurate in their info. They did not go in for sesationalism


At 09:40 AM 7/28/00 -0500, Michael McNaughton wrote:
>Are there any data on an official site, e.g., pnl.gov or epa.gov? If not,
>why not? Why do we rely on the newspapers for these data?
>
>Mike
>
>At 12:50 PM 7/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Here are the figures as released in an article in the local (Richland, Wa
>>area) newspaper.  All are for Pu239.
>>.00036pci/m^3 in downtown Richland
>>.00042pci/m^3 across Columbia river in Pasco, Wa area (southeast of Hanford
>>site)
>>.00012-.00023pci/m^3 at various other sites around Richland area
>>
>>For a baseline of "normal" concentration of Pu 239 in the air at Hanford
>>site boundary the following was given: ~.0000003pci/m^3
>
>Mike McNaughton
>email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
>phone: (505)667-6130
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