Re: radiation leaks...

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

"Tsurikov, Nick" wrote:
> 
> Dear Radsafers,
> 
> It seems that St. Petersburg Times in Russia has just published another
> interesting article (http://www.sptimes.ru/current/top/t_758.htm
> <http://www.sptimes.ru/current/top/t_758.htm>  ).  As it will be on this
> address until Friday those who are interested may have a look.

> A couple of quotes:
> >>>>>>>
> Dangerous levels of radioactivity - exceeding the amount produced by 10,000
> nuclear reactors - have been detected in two rivers near a western Siberian
> nuclear complex, a U.S.-based nuclear watchdog said in a report issued
> Thursday.
> >>>>>>>
> Analyses found strontium 90 in plant life along the Romashka River at 10,000
> picocuries per liter, the report said. Levels above 8 per liter are outlawed
> in U.S. drinking water.
> <<<<<<<

Of course this says more about the silly extremes of the limits on nuclear
reactors and Sr-90 in water (vs. concentration factors) than about the
'danger' of the rivers and ('plant life?') What's a liter of plant life?

Regards, Jim
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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> Kind regards
> Nick Tsurikov
> Eneabba
> Western Australia
> http://eneabba.net/ <http://eneabba.net/>
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