Re: Dilution the Solution?

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@chello.at>]

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Von: Zack Clayton <zack.clayton@epa.state.oh.us>
An: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Datum: Donnerstag, 04. Jänner 2001 19:49
Betreff: Re: Dilution the Solution?


>Another assumption we make in Ohio is that deep plowing buries a large
fraction of the contamination below the root zone of shallow rooted crops
and would allow the land to be restored to production faster.  Or
politically, the forage that would end up growing on it wouldn't contaminate
the wildlife as much as leaving it on the surface.  The last time we looked
at this closely was about 10 years ago.  We may want to look at this again
in our next review.


Zack,

After the Chernobyl accident the idea of deep plowing was a favourite idea
of some "green radiation protection scientists" in Austria. It was neither
recommended nor done in Austria, because the agriculture scientists made it
clear that such a measure would severely disturb the fertility of the soil.

The contamination of crops could be easily detected, but in terms of
radiation protection principles it was negligible. So why to introduce such
severe interference with a natural ecosystem?

Franz


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