Re: Loose fuel fragment in Chernobyl, first-hand information

[Peter Aryasov <aryaspin@rpi.kiev.ua>]

According to privat conversation by phone with the Object Shelter (OS)
representative (Radiation Safety Department) situation is following:
1. IT IS NOT THE FUEL FRAGMENT
2. It is a fragment of iron tube
3. This fragment emit the radiation about 200 Roentgen (but it was measured by
ordinary dosimetry device)
4. This fragment located between 4-th and 3-d units of  ChNPP,
namely: Unit "B", axis 38-39, mark 68+
Remark: OS begins at the axis 39

5. It was found by dosimetry department worker while the investigating the
potential itinerary  and someone decide that it is the fuel fragment – It is NOT.

At that time Radiation Safety Department of the OS in process of  an official
refutation on
that fact.

Thats all.
Best regards

.--
 Peter B. Aryasov
 Senior research fellow, Laboratory for
 Alpha Radiation Dosimetry.
 Melnikova str. 53, Kiev, Ukraine,
 Radiation Protection Institute
 Tel. (380) 044 2139629
 e-mail: aryaspin@rpi.kiev.ua


************************************************************************
The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html