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radsafe-digest Saturday, April 7 2001 Volume 01 : Number 028
In this issue:
Re: Radon Web Site
Apologies
Re: Radon Web Site - heat
Germany to ship nuke waste to France-Greenpeace
Irresponsible weapons - Depleted uranium arms very harmful
Re: Radon Web Site
Re: DOE cleanup to fund tax cut
Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Ward Valley Damages Suit
Re: DOE cleanup to fund tax cut
Re: Radon Web Site
Depleted Uranium (Again)
two purposes
Re: (Another question )RE: Smear Collection Efficiency
2nd test
URGENT request for Mn-54 for seafloor sciesmic event study!
RE: (Another question )RE: Smear Collection Efficiency
RE: DOE cleanup to fund tax cut
Re: Radon Web Site
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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 09:00:13 -0600
From: "Phil Hypes" <laradcon@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Radon Web Site
I like this quote even better: "Radon is produced by the natural breakdown
of radioactive heavy metals dispersed throughout the earth's crust. (fine so
far, but read on and learn!) This spontaneous fission makes life on earth
possible - it heats the earth's core."
I always thought that pressure heated the earth's core. Also, how much does
life on earth depend on geothermal heating? Is life on earth really
dependent on heat from the core?
For those of you who haven't looked at the site, it's selling concrete
sealant.
Phil
laradcon@hotmail.com
>Found the following web site regarding radon gas in homes. Could someone
>in this group verify his statements.
>
>
>http://www.radonseal.com/radon-indoor.htm
>
>David Norman
>Norm-Rad Services
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:04:09 -0500
From: "David Norman" <david.norman@norm-rad.com>
Subject: Apologies
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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 12:02:43 -0400
From: "Zack Clayton" <zack.clayton@EPA.STATE.OH.US>
Subject: Re: Radon Web Site - heat
Phil,
Yes life on Earth probably does depend on a hot core, and current theory is that the energy is supplied by radioactive DECAY.
The molten core allows the dynamo mechanism to create the Earth's magnetic field that
Shields us biologically from a lot of particle bombardment from the solar wind, and
Shields the atmosphere from solar wind erosion.
A molten core allows plate tectonic subduction and extrusion that recycles carbon and oxygen so everything doesn't lock up in sediments.
Pressure by itself doesn't create heat, contraction under pressure creates heat. The Earth gets warmer as you go deeper under the surface due to the insulating properties of thickness. Without the decay heat the Earth would have frozen up long ago like Mars, with loss of magnetic shielding and a permanent case of rust.
Zack Clayton
Ohio EPA - DERR
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 08:25:07 -0700
From: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Germany to ship nuke waste to France-Greenpeace
Index:
Germany to ship nuke waste to France-Greenpeace
British Energy Plans to Restart 2 Canadian Reactors by 2003
Bruce Power to spend C$340 million on reactor startup
EIS draft guidelines issued for nuclear waste dump
Hanford nuclear facility evacuated on false alarm
EBRD opens funds to Lithuania for closing N-plant
Newly created material defies laws of physics
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Germany to ship nuke waste to France-Greenpeace
BERLIN, April 6 (Reuters) - Germany plans to send nuclear waste to
France next week for the first time in three years since Berlin
banned the return of its reprocessed waste from France, anti-nuclear
activists said on Friday.
The environmental group Greenpeace said it planned peaceful protests
against what it expected to be shipments of some 30 tonnes of waste
on Monday or Tuesday from three power stations in southwest Germany
to the French reprocessing plant at La Hague.
Anti-nuclear activists clashed with police last week when Germany
took back the first cargo of reprocessed waste from France since
Berlin banned the shipments in 1998 over concerns about radioactive
leaks.
France agreed in January to take more material from Germany's nuclear
power plants for reprocessing if Germany accepted back waste already
reprocessed in La Hague for long-term storage.
Greenpeace spokesman Veit Buerger told a news conference in Berlin
that last week's transport to Gorleben storage plant was "nothing
more than a door opener."
"The government is treating France as the atom toilet of Germany," he
said.
Protesters held up last week's shipment for a day by chaining
themselves to the railway. German police said a week-long train
strike in France could delay next week's shipment.
German officials declined to give details of timings of the shipments
for fear of attracting demonstrators. French reprocessing firm Cogema
was not immediately available for comment on whether it was expecting
new shipments from Germany.
Buerger said the government planned 40 more waste shipments to La
Hague this year. The deployment of some 30,000 police officers last
week to guard the first transport to La Hague since 1997 cost the
state around $50 million.
Greenpeace would not give any details about its planned protests, but
many activists say they hope that by driving up the cost of policing
such transports they will persuade the government to withdraw more
quickly from nuclear energy.
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British Energy Plans to Restart 2 Canadian Reactors by 2003
Toronto, April 6 (Bloomberg) -- British Energy Plc, the U.K.'s
biggest power generator, said it expects to restart two reactors at
Canada's Bruce Power nuclear station, one of the world's largest, by
2003.
Restarting the reactors will cost C$340 million ($217 million),
British Energy said in a statement released by Regulatory News
Service. The Bruce station, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest
of Toronto, has eight nuclear units, four of which are currently out
of service.
British Energy last year agreed to lease the Bruce station from
province-owned Ontario Power Generation Inc. in a contract worth as
much as $3.5 billion over 43 years.
Closing of the lease transaction is expected ``early this summer''
following a review by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, British
Energy said.
British Energy owns about 80 percent of Bruce Power LP, the limited
partnership that leases and operates the station. Canada's Cameco
Corp. holds 15 percent, while two Canadian unions control the rest,
said Cameco spokesman Jamie MacIntyre.
Cameco, a Canadian uranium producer, is the sole supplier of fuel to
the Bruce reactors
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Bruce Power to spend C$340 million on reactor startup
TORONTO, April 6 (Reuters) - Bruce Power said on Friday it will spend
C$340 million over the next two years to restart two nuclear reactors
at its Bruce A nuclear power plant.
Bruce Power, a partnership between British Energy Plc <BGY.L> and
uranium producer Cameco Corp. <CCO.TO>, said in a release that it
will spend C$30 million over the next three months in the first phase
of the start-up plan to bring units 3 and 4 of the Bruce A station
back into service by the summer of 2003. The two units have a total
generating capacity of 1,500 megawatts.
All four units, leased by Bruce Power from Ontario Power Generation,
are currently laid-up.
The restart of the two reactors is conditional on a number of factors
including financial closing of the Bruce transaction, expected by
summer 2001, obtaining regulatory approval for the restart, and
meeting performance targets for the four operational reactors at the
Bruce B plant.
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EIS draft guidelines issued for nuclear waste dump
6 April - Australian Broadcasting Corporation - The Federal
Government has issued draft guidelines for an environmental impact
statement for a proposed national low level radioactive waste dump
in the central north of South Australia.
Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill says the draft guidelines
will cover the complete assessment of three potential sites near
Woomera.
He says the notion of a radioactive waste repository is a sensitive
one, and the guidelines will allow for full public access and
comment .
"The issue is to make sure that we've got the right site, we're using
the right processes for encasement of the waste, that the transport
is safe, that the conditions for work of the staff at the repository
are safe from both the health and environmental perspective, all of
that detail is what is being examined now," he said.
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Hanford nuclear facility evacuated on false alarm
RICHLAND, Wash., April 5 (Reuters) - Alarm bells forced 400 workers
to evacuate a plutonium processing plant at the Hanford nuclear
reservation on Thursday, though officials said no radiation had
escaped.
The site, which houses millions of gallons of highly radioactive
waste dating back to the dawn of U.S. nuclear weapons production, has
checked out clean, an Energy Department spokesman said.
"There are absolutely no indications at this stage that we had any
kind of a release of radioactivity," said Energy Department spokesman
Mike Talbot.
"The first order of business was to survey (workers) and assure that
they had not been contaminated or exposed and they've all come back
negative," Talbot said.
False alarms are rare at Hanford, but Talbot said that appeared to be
the only explanation.
"Everybody is okay and at this point what we really think we are
seeing is a mechanical difficulty with the alarm," he added.
Talbot could not immediately say when the facility might reopen.
"It would take a little time to recover," Talbot said.
Officials in Washington and other Western U.S. states have urged the
federal government to boost funding for nuclear cleanup in the
region.
According to Washington Attorney General Christine Gregoire, Hanford
contains 53 million gallons of radioactive waste in underground tanks
and about a million gallons have leaked into the soil and
contaminated groundwater.
The Energy Department is legally required by July 31 to break ground
on a facility to convert the liquid waste into more easily stored
glass but has yet to design the facility and probably will miss that
deadline, Gregoire said last month.
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EBRD opens funds to Lithuania for closing N-plant
VILNIUS, April 5 (Reuters) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development said on Thursday it had reached agreement allowing
Lithuania to access funds for closing the first of two units at the
Ignalina nuclear power plant.
The EBRD said in a statement the agreement was also approved at a
meeting of the 11 countries contributing to the Ignalina
decommissioning support fund.
"Today's meeting is a clear sign that the implementation of the
decommissioning programme has started," Matthias Ruete, an
enlargement director in the European Commission said.
Last June Lithuania received pledges totalling about 208 million
euros ($186.7 million) from the international community for projects
related to decommissioning the first reactor that will cost Lithuania
200 million euros up to closure in 2005.
Countries donating to the fund so far include Austria, Belgium,
Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden,
Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The European Union (EU) pledged 165 million euros. It considers
Ignalina unsafe because it was built to the same design as Ukraine's
Chernobyl plant, cause of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident
in 1986.
EU-aspirant Lithuania has pledged to make a decision over closing
Ignalina's second reactor in 2004, but the EU has said the country
will have to make the decision before completing all its accession
negotiations.
Many in former Soviet Lithuania have been reluctant to shut Ignalina,
which was built in the 1980s on Moscow's orders, as the country is
heavily dependent on nuclear power for its energy needs.
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Newly created material defies laws of physics
WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) - Experiments on a newly created
composite material have shown that it bends microwaves passing
through it in a direction that seems to defy the laws of physics,
scientists said on Thursday, in a discovery that could help in making
more advanced lenses and antennas.
The composite, made of fiberglass and copper, caused microwaves shot
through it to bend in an opposite direction than the laws of physics
predict, making it the first material to have a "negative index of
refraction," physicists said in a study appearing in the journal
Science.
Electromagnetic radiation -- such as light and microwaves -- passing
through ordinary materials is deflected in the same direction, giving
those materials a "positive index of refraction," they said. An
example is the way light bends when it passes from air to water.
The composite could be useful in developing better antennas and other
technology for the cellular communications industry, said physicist
Sheldon Schultz, who created the material along with colleagues David
Smith and Richard Shelby at the University of California at San
Diego.
Although the composite cannot focus visible light, Schultz said he
hopes that obstacle can be overcome in the future.
Physicist John Pendry of London's Imperial College has said that a
material with a "negative refraction" would make possible the
construction of a lens capable of focusing light to limits not
currently achievable.
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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:24:04 -0400
From: Susan Gawarecki <loc@ICX.NET>
Subject: Irresponsible weapons - Depleted uranium arms very harmful
This from http://www.michigandaily.com/articles.php?uniqid=20010405e02
This would be a good opportunity for a degreed rad expert to set the
record straight with a letter to the editor:
Irresponsible weapons - Depleted uranium arms very harmful
(unsigned editorial)
War is hell, and in this particular hell the goal is to kill the enemy.
However in modern warfare every effort should be taken to minimize
“collateral damage.” A specific case of this is before the United States
military establishment right now.
Since the Gulf War the U.S. military has employed depleted Uranium
munitions. At first glance these appear to be “superior” armaments.
Cheap and effective, their density and self-sharpening properties make
them appear to be the “perfect” weapon. However depleted uranium strikes
the enemy not once, but twice. Uranium, like most heavy metals, is
terribly toxic. The military’s zealous overkills in Iraq, the Balkans,
and even Puerto Rico have been littered with highly toxic depleted
uranium. An informational presentation will be taking place today in
room 1040 of the Dana Building at 7:30 p.m. While many of the alleged
dangers of depleted uranium remain in contention, education is always
helpful.
While the radiological dangers of depleted uranium are less than natural
uranium they still remain a concern, and may possibly be linked to Gulf
War Syndrome. Depleted uranium remains as toxic as mercury, yet the U.S.
military has relentlessly shelled the hills of Kosovo and the
countryside of Iraq with this substance. As much as a two-thirds
increase in the cancer rate among Iraqis may be due to the use of
depleted uranium in the Gulf War. Even if, as the Defense Department
claims, depleted uranium offers insignificant radiological threat its
chemical toxicity remains.
While uranium evokes fears of radiation depleted uranium is more
dangerous in terms of chemical toxicity. The potential nuclear threat of
depleted uranium is dwarfed by the chemical threat. But a chemical
analysis of depleted uranium turns up a shocking reality. If depleted
uranium were administered to an individual with a teaspoon, its chemical
toxicity would kill more people than it could as a low grade nuclear
bomb.
The dangers inherent to depleted uranium: Kidney damage, liver failure,
etc. are significant enough to civilian populations that this hazardous
material should be restricted if not outright banned. As the U.S. enjoys
a military superiority of immense magnitude these munitions are not
necessary and serve only as cost effective tank killers. The toll they
take in human life clearly warrants both more research into the
long-term effects of depleted uranium exposure and a moratorium on their
use and manufacture. Rather than risk the lives of civilian children,
military service personal and unknown environmental problems the Defense
Department should take responsibility and take measures to avoid the
“collateral damage” inherent to depleted uranium.
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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director
Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee
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A schedule of meetings on DOE issues is posted on our Web site
http://www.local-oversight.org/meetings.html - E-mail loc@icx.net
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:39:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Prestwich <prestwic@MCMAIL.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>
Subject: Re: Radon Web Site
Dear Phil,
It seems obvious that the author is using fission and spontaneous
fission as a synonym for any type of decay. Nevertheless, it is my
understanding that the major source of heat keeping the earth's core
molten arises from radioactive decay-primarily 40K. So at least some of
the message, if somewhat garbled, does have a scientific basis.
Bill Prestwich
mcmaster.ca
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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 14:34:58 -0400
From: Susan Gawarecki <loc@ICX.NET>
Subject: Re: DOE cleanup to fund tax cut
I was able to track down the source of this information. The
Competitive Enterprise Institute (a conservative think tank) has
released a report authored by Robert Nelson titled "From Waste to
Wilderness: Maintaining Biodiversity on Nuclear-Bomb-Building Sites"
dated April 2001. It's available at
http://www.cei.org/PDFs/waste_to_wilderness.pdf
I've quickly skimmed it and have yet to formulate an opinion. Some
arguments and proposals look realistic, others not so. I was extremely
surprised to see myself quoted (accurately) on pages 7-8, though
obviously out of the original context (the source doesn't seem to be
referenced), which was to complain that funding decisions for cleanup
are made to satisfy squeaky wheels, not by realistic evaluation of which
communities are most at-risk from DOE contamination.
The CEI press release, available at:
http://www.cei.org/PRReader.asp?ID=1412 reads:
Federal Government Should Abandon Current Nuclear Cleanup Program
Environmental Expert Proposes Turning ‘Waste’ Sites into ‘Wilderness’
Areas
Washington, DC, March 20, 2001—The federal government spends around $6
billion a year to clean up Department of Energy nuclear sites from World
War II and the Cold War, but a Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at
the Competitive Enterprise Institute says the program wastes taxpayers’
money and has the potential to hurt the environment.
In his newly released research paper From Waste to Wilderness:
Maintaining Biodiversity on Nuclear-Bomb-Building Sites, Dr. Robert
Nelson is proposing a new approach that would successfully convert these
waste sites into ecologically sound wilderness areas and save billions
of tax dollars at the same time. For more than fifty years, the
government has restricted access to nuclear weapons sites because of
public safety and health concerns, and now many of those areas have
become places where endangered species and other wildlife and plants are
thriving.
“The current government attempts to clean up these areas overlook the
environmental value of their rare ecologies. It is time for a new form
of stewardship strategy, to take the necessary steps to protect
Americans from any actual threats posed by radioactive waste, but also
to set as a policy priority the conservation of these DOE sites for
their rich ecological diversity,” said Dr. Nelson.
Spending billions of dollars on environmental cleanup is not necessarily
good for the environment, argues Dr. Nelson, and he points to the Exxon
Valdez case as an example. After the oil tanker spilled more than 10
million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989,
Exxon launched a massive cleanup that cost about $2 billion. But the
process, which involved the spraying of intense jets of hot water and
oil detergents, ended up doing significant damage to the shoreline
ecology. Since then, many analysts have agreed it would have been better
to leave nature to do the job alone.
To avoid situations like that, Dr. Nelson suggests a new “win-win”
approach for the cleanup of nuclear waste sites that includes:
recognizing the high ecological value of these sites, minimizing
actual risk to offsite human population, recognizing that long-term
cleanup requires technological advance, and continuing stewardship of
DOE sites to conserve ecological value and protect public health.
END QUOTE
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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director
Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee
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A schedule of meetings on DOE issues is posted on our Web site
http://www.local-oversight.org/meetings.html - E-mail loc@icx.net
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:32:42 -0700
From: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Ward Valley Damages Suit
Index:
Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Ward Valley Damages Suit
PG&E unit bankruptcy is third-largest
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American Ecology Announces Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Ward
Valley Damages Suit
BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2001--
American Ecology Reaffirms Commitment to Seek Recovery of
Damages from State of California in Pending State Court Litigation
Jack K. Lemley, Chairman, President and CEO of American Ecology
Corporation (Nasdaq:ECOL), today announced that a lawsuit filed by
subsidiary US Ecology, Inc. to recover damages from the federal
government for its failure to complete the land transfer for the Ward
Valley low-level radioactive waste ("LLRW") disposal project had been
dismissed on appeal.
The ruling, issued on March 30, 2001 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit, held that sufficient evidence was not presented
to establish that the federal government intended for any third party
- -- such as US Ecology -- to have rights under an alleged contract
between the federal government and the State of California to
purchase the Ward Valley site. The Court did not rule on the issues
of contract formation or US Ecology's standing to appeal.
"While we are disappointed in the ruling, American Ecology believes
its case against the State of California remains strong," Lemley
commented. "US Ecology intends to vigorously pursue completion of the
land acquisition by California or recovery of monetary damages in
State Court," Lemley added.
In May 2000, US Ecology filed suit against the State of California in
Superior Court for the County of San Diego seeking to compel the
State to resume efforts to acquire the Ward Valley site. This pending
suit also seeks recovery of costs incurred, interest, lost profits
and certain legal expenses exceeding $162 million.
In October, 2000, California Superior Court Judge S. Charles
Wickersham issued an Order granting California's motion to dismiss
the case. US Ecology appealed that ruling, and briefing is now
underway. Oral argument has not been set. "The State of California
still has a contractual obligation to US Ecology and nothing in the
recent federal court ruling changes that," Lemley concluded.
American Ecology Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides a
variety of radioactive, PCB, hazardous and non-hazardous waste
services to commercial and government customers throughout the United
States, such as nuclear power plants, medical and academic
institutions and petro-chemical facilities. The company provides
scientific solutions that protect people and the environment.
Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, the Company is the oldest radioactive
and hazardous waste services Company in the United States.
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PG&E unit bankruptcy is third-largest
Utility stands behind Texaco, Financial Corp.
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - When Pacific Gas & Electric on Friday sought
Chapter 11 protection from its creditors, the electric utility took
an infamous place in history.
Its bankruptcy filing - listing $24.18 billion of assets - ranks the
utility third on the list of the largest U.S. bankruptcies, according
to Bankruptcydata.com. Ahead of Pacific Gas & Electric, which is a
subsidiary of PG&E Corp.
({HYPERLINK "/tools/quotes/intChart.asp?siteid=aolpf&symb=PCG"}PCG) ,
are Texaco
({HYPERLINK "/tools/quotes/intChart.asp?siteid=aolpf&symb=TX"}TX) ,
which filed in 1987 with $35.9 billion of assets, and Financial Corp.
of America, which filed in 1988 with $33.9 billion of assets.
MCorp is fourth on the list, listing $20.2 billion of assets when it
filed in 1989, and in fifth place - First Executive Corp., which
filed in 1991 with assets of $15.2 billion of assets.
According to Susan Abbott, a managing director at Moody's Investors
Service, there have been only two other utility bankruptcies - Public
Service of New Hampshire and El Paso Electric Co. Both were small
companies and can't compare to Pacific Gas & Electric, she noted.
Pacific Gas & Electric gave up on solvency, in part because it has
almost $9 billion worth of debt and saw no relief in sight from the
state of California. Although California Gov. Gray Davis signed a
mandate Thursday night to raise the state's electricity rates, Abbott
pointed out that the utility, in its conference call, said that there
has been much talk but very little action taken by the state.
"And that's what brought them to the place they are now," she said.
"It appeared there were a couple of elements that PG&E couldn't live
with: there was virtually no progress being made on their case with
the governor's office, they are still exposed to obligations related
to net short positions, and the rate increase signed by Davis last
night doesn't do anything to help the situation."
That leaves Pacific Gas & Electric peer Southern California Edison
flapping in the wind. Abbott said it's a toss-up as to whether
SoCalEd, a division of Edison International
({HYPERLINK "/tools/quotes/intChart.asp?siteid=aolpf&symb=EIX"}EIX) ,
will follow Pacific Gas & Electric's lead. But they're in the very
same boat, she said.
"They have continuing obligations for net short positions, the
structure of the market continues to be a mess, and there's no relief
for the debt they've taken on," Abbott said.
Although SoCalEd would likely file for bankruptcy and not its parent,
Edison has about $37.9 billion worth of assets as of Sept. 30, 2000,
according to data from Hoover's.
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Director, Technical Extension 2306
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:16:35 EDT
From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: DOE cleanup to fund tax cut
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As at least one respondent pointed out, the sites are currently ecological
preserves, precisely because human access is limited. Hanford's NERP
(National Environmental Research Park) is in fact a rather unique ecology
since it is a temperate zone desert. It's called the Arid Lands Ecology
(ALE) site, and was inaugurated in 1976.
I might also point out that in 1991 or 1992, when I was on a NAS risk
prioritization panel, Curt Travis at Oak Ridge used a program called MEPAS to
identify the most hazardous sites in the DOE complex, and there were really
only a few places that posed any significant risk. However, this made most
of the citizen activists mad, because in any prioritization some sites end up
high on the list and others , lower. At their behest, Hazel O'Leary
eliminated the prioritization idea (and the NAS panel) and instituted the
Citizens' Advisory Boards, following some meeting at the Keystone conference
center in Colorado that resulted in the so-called "Keystone Accords" that
gave "stakeholders" a voice in what to clean up and how to do it. And here
we are!
Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2><B>As at least one respondent pointed out, the sites are currently ecological
<BR>preserves, precisely because human access is limited. Hanford's NERP
<BR>(National Environmental Research Park) is in fact a rather unique ecology
<BR>since it is a temperate zone desert. It's called the Arid Lands Ecology
<BR>(ALE) site, and was inaugurated in 1976.
<BR>
<BR>I might also point out that in 1991 or 1992, when I was on a NAS risk
<BR>prioritization panel, Curt Travis at Oak Ridge used a program called MEPAS to
<BR>identify the most hazardous sites in the DOE complex, and there were really
<BR>only a few places that posed any significant risk. However, this made most
<BR>of the citizen activists mad, because in any prioritization some sites end up
<BR>high on the list and others , lower. At their behest, Hazel O'Leary
<BR>eliminated the prioritization idea (and the NAS panel) and instituted the
<BR>Citizens' Advisory Boards, following some meeting at the Keystone conference
<BR>center in Colorado that resulted in the so-called "Keystone Accords" that
<BR>gave "stakeholders" a voice in what to clean up and how to do it. And here
<BR>we are!
<BR>
<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
<BR>ruthweiner@aol.com</B></FONT></HTML>
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:20:02 EDT
From: RadSafeInst@CS.COM
Subject: Re: Radon Web Site
In a message dated 04/06/2001 11:48:53 AM Central Daylight Time,
laradcon@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
<< radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
>>
Wow! Fission heating of the earth's core----to preserve life! Welcome back,
Jules Verne. I agree with Phil: we shouldn't be so hard on a concrete
salesman! Ed Battle
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:34:03 EDT
From: RadSafeInst@CS.COM
Subject: Depleted Uranium (Again)
I picture Dr. Gawarecki sitting at her typewriter foaming at the mouth with
indignation that we (U.S Military) would dare use a weapon that is harmful to
people. Here are a few interesting quotes: "...serve only as cost effective
tank killers. The toll they
take in human life clearly warrants both more research into the long-term
effects of depleted uranium exposure and a moratorium on their use and
manufacture" Cost effective tank killers sound pretty useful to me:
especially on a modern battllefield. Also, note that we impose a moratorium,
then we do the research to see if it's justified. The reference to "the toll
they take in human life" makes research unnecessary, doesn't it. Oh good
grief, Charlie Brown, I can't read anymore !!!!!!!! Ed Battle
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:39:36 -0500
From: "Michael Stabin" <michael.g.stabin@VANDERBILT.EDU>
Subject: two purposes
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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 23:31:56 +0200
From: Harald Weiss <weiss@KI.COMCITY.DE>
Subject: Re: (Another question )RE: Smear Collection Efficiency
Emil Murat schrieb:
>
> The question:
>
> Is a loose contamination, is a smearable?
>
> 1.1 I had an impression that smear refers to
> "smearable"
> contamination i.e. what can get onto smear.
> So it is irrelevant if all of it gets onto smear or
> only 10% of it.
>
AFAIK, the result of the smear test has to be corrected with the
"smearing efficiency" in order to find the *removable* (not smearable)
contamination. A value of 10 % is used, if the efficiency is not known.
Normally this value is used. In the few cases I saw, where the
efficiency was measured, it amounted to up to 70 % on smoothly painted
surfaces.
Greetings,
Harald
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:01:38 -0500
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Subject: 2nd test
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Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
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1161 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37232-2675
Phone (615) 322-3190
Fax (615) 322-3764
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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 23:04:06 -0700
From: "Sandy O'Brien" <sobrien@UCSD.EDU>
Subject: URGENT request for Mn-54 for seafloor sciesmic event study!
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Hello all,
A sea-floor, volcanic, seismic event was recently detected in the Gorda
Ridge area along the Pacific Northwest. A pre-planned "Event and Rapid
Response" effort is presently underway to study this sea-floor
phenomenon. As part of this response effort, a Scripps Institution of
Oceanography research vessel, New Horizon, is transiting to the study
site. The vessel will be the science platform for an array of studies
coordinated and carried out by University of Hawaii and NOAA scientists.
The Principal Investigator from the University of Hawaii, Dr. Jim Cowen, is
in urgent need of Mn-54 for tracer studies at the event site. Dr. Cowen
had pre-arranged for the vendor to drop-ship his Mn-54 stock to the ship's
loading location upon the occurrence of such a detectable seismic
event. However, now that an event has occurred, he finds that the vendor
cannot obtain the Mn-54 in time to meet the immediate response need.
Dr. Cowen URGENTLY needs the following:
Mn-54 as manganese chloride, 100-200 microCuries, high specific activity
and high purity.
An aqueous solution is best. The solution need not be sterile but should
be clean. Dry powder form may work as well. Dr. Cowen will pay all
shipping costs and will replace the Mn-54 stock.
The material must be in Eureka, CA (Northern California) Tuesday morning
by 1000, or so, for loading onto the vessel. We could work the transport
thru several means but a combination of commercial airline and courier
appears the most promising, especially in light of the tight schedule
deadline. The material could be flown into San Francisco International
Airport and picked up by a courier company for routing to the ship. (I
already have a courier company lined up that works 24 hours.) I will
coordinate transport logistics.
The material will be used under the University of California, San Diego
licenses. We are properly licensed for use of radioactive materials for
this type of endeavor. The "Event and Rapid Response" parameters were
pre-arranged by agreement with the NRC, the University of Hawaii, and the
University of California, San Diego. For questions regarding licensing,
please contact me at the numbers below.
If someone has Mn--54 that they can spare for the time being, please
respond by email to
Dr. Cowen at jcowen@soest.hawaii.edu AND to me at sobrien@ucsd.edu, or
telephone me at the numbers below. Email will reach Dr. Cowen until 0800
Hawaii time. After that time, I will relay the information to him.
I know that this is short notice but we are giving it a try. This is an
unusual study opportunity and we'd like to maximize the research
endeavor. This is a good chance to be a hero and assist with this unusual
science effort.
Information on the Gorda Ridge seismic event can be viewed at
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/seismicity/nepac/gordaridge01.html
(Sorry for the double posting for those on both RADSAFE and AMRSO lists.)
Thank you in advance,
Sandy O'Brien, HP
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California, San Diego-0210
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0210
phone: 858-534-6103
fax: 858-534-5306
email: sobrien@ucsd.edu
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Hello all,<br>
<br>
A sea-floor, volcanic, seismic event was recently detected in the Gorda
Ridge area along the Pacific Northwest. A pre-planned "Event
and Rapid Response" effort is presently underway to study this
sea-floor phenomenon. As part of this response effort, a Scripps
Institution of Oceanography research vessel, <i>New Horizon</i>, is
transiting to the study site. The vessel will be the science
platform for an array of studies coordinated and carried out by
University of Hawaii and NOAA scientists. <br>
<br>
The Principal Investigator from the University of Hawaii, Dr. Jim Cowen,
is in urgent need of Mn-54 for tracer studies at the event site.
Dr. Cowen had pre-arranged for the vendor to drop-ship his Mn-54 stock to
the ship's loading location upon the occurrence of such a detectable
seismic event. However, now that an event has occurred, he finds
that the vendor cannot obtain the Mn-54 in time to meet the immediate
response need. <br>
<br>
Dr. Cowen <b>URGENTLY</b> needs the following:<br>
Mn-54 as manganese chloride, 100-200 microCuries, high specific activity
and high purity.<br>
An aqueous solution is best. The solution need not be sterile but
should be clean. Dry powder form may work as well. Dr. Cowen
will pay all shipping costs and will replace the Mn-54 stock.<br>
<br>
The material must be in Eureka, CA (Northern California) Tuesday
morning by 1000, or so, for loading onto the vessel. We could work
the transport thru several means but a combination of commercial airline
and courier appears the most promising, especially in light of the tight
schedule deadline. The material could be flown into San Francisco
International Airport and picked up by a courier company for routing to
the ship. (I already have a courier company lined up that works 24
hours.) I will coordinate transport logistics. <br>
<br>
The material will be used under the University of California, San Diego
licenses. We are properly licensed for use of radioactive materials
for this type of endeavor. The "Event and Rapid Response"
parameters were pre-arranged by agreement with the NRC, the University of
Hawaii, and the University of California, San Diego. For questions
regarding licensing, please contact me at the numbers below.<br>
<br>
If someone has Mn--54 that they can spare for the time being, please
respond by email to<br>
Dr. Cowen at jcowen@soest.hawaii.edu <b>AND</b> to me at
sobrien@ucsd.edu, or telephone me at the numbers below. Email will
reach Dr. Cowen until 0800 Hawaii time. After that time, I
will relay the information to him. <br>
<br>
I know that this is short notice but we are giving it a try. This
is an unusual study opportunity and we'd like to maximize the research
endeavor. This is a good chance to be a hero and assist with this
unusual science effort. <br>
<br>
Information on the Gorda Ridge seismic event can be viewed at
<br>
<a href="http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/seismicity/nepac/gordaridge01.html"; eudora="autourl">http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/seismicity/nepac/gordaridge01.</a><a href="http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/seismicity/nepac/gordaridge01.html"; eudora="autourl">html<br>
<br>
</a>(Sorry for the double posting for those on both RADSAFE and AMRSO
lists.)<br>
<br>
Thank you in advance,<br>
<br>
Sandy O'Brien, HP<br>
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, <br>
University of California, San Diego-0210<br>
9500 Gilman Drive<br>
La Jolla, CA 92093-0210<br>
phone: 858-534-6103<br>
fax: <x-tab> </x-tab> 858-534-5306<br>
email: sobrien@ucsd.edu<br>
<br>
<br>
</html>
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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 09:29:47 -0400
From: "Stokes, James" <StokesJ@TTNUS.COM>
Subject: RE: (Another question )RE: Smear Collection Efficiency
I was trained in doing surveys by some of the Defense Programs personnel
that developed and did contamination surveys. They stated that the
philosophy behind the smear, was to determine how much contamination could
be picked up through incidental contact with contaminated material; not to
determine how much was on the surface, but how much could be transfered by
contact with that surface.
I realized that codifying saomething into a regulation, can change all of
that. I was just wantd to provide the historical perspective relative to
intent of the survey.
Jim Stokes RRpt
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From: Harald Weiss
To: radsafe
Sent: 4/6/01 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: (Another question )RE: Smear Collection Efficiency
Emil Murat schrieb:
>
> The question:
>
> Is a loose contamination, is a smearable?
>
> 1.1 I had an impression that smear refers to
> "smearable"
> contamination i.e. what can get onto smear.
> So it is irrelevant if all of it gets onto smear or
> only 10% of it.
>
AFAIK, the result of the smear test has to be corrected with the
"smearing efficiency" in order to find the *removable* (not smearable)
contamination. A value of 10 % is used, if the efficiency is not known.
Normally this value is used. In the few cases I saw, where the
efficiency was measured, it amounted to up to 70 % on smoothly painted
surfaces.
Greetings,
Harald
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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 09:54:24 -0400
From: "Stokes, James" <StokesJ@TTNUS.COM>
Subject: RE: DOE cleanup to fund tax cut
I would like to put this issue in my own personal perspective. The U.S DOE
Defense Programs complex consists of about 2000 square miles of
radioactively and chemically contaminated lands. Does anyone belive that
there are enough tax dollars in The United Staes of America, to clean al of
these lands to their original pristine condition? Do the calculations, and
I will be willing to bet against it.
Therefore, at some point, there will have to be a decision, that no more
clean up will happen. I am not saying that this is the time for that. I am
simply stating, pragmatically, that that time WILL come.
Therefore, we most diligantly, and RESPONSIBLY spend the money while it is
available, to clean up as much as we can. Because the "wallet" for cleanup
is not bottomless. Remember that the Weldon Springs, MO sight sat idle for
fifteen years, before any money was appropriated for its cleanup.
Many do not know that it was the sister facility of the Fernald, OH site.
Ask yourself why the Fernald sight received billions for its cleanup, when
Weldon Springs only received millions. Answer, politics, not technical
justification. Fernald is 1150 acres of uranium contamination. Hanford is
570 sq miles, INEEL is 890 SQ. miles, and Savannah River Site is about 270
sq. miles. These sites have transuranic contamiation. Just usinf a simple
linear extrapolation, the U.S. budget could not handle a cleanup to
pristine conditions in our lifetime.
The decisions that will have to be made will be emotional, negotiations
protracted, and in the end, will satisfy noone. But all of us must look at
what CAN be achieved, and do our best to ensure that the most that can be
done, will be. But there will be a point at which the cleanup will have to
end, because there just simply is just not enough money to do it all.
These are my opinions alne, and probably conflict with many others who
naively believe that we can have it all.
- -----Original Message-----
From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
To: loc@ICX.NET; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Sent: 4/6/01 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: DOE cleanup to fund tax cut
As at least one respondent pointed out, the sites are currently
ecological
preserves, precisely because human access is limited. Hanford's NERP
(National Environmental Research Park) is in fact a rather unique
ecology
since it is a temperate zone desert. It's called the Arid Lands Ecology
(ALE) site, and was inaugurated in 1976.
I might also point out that in 1991 or 1992, when I was on a NAS risk
prioritization panel, Curt Travis at Oak Ridge used a program called
MEPAS to
identify the most hazardous sites in the DOE complex, and there were
really
only a few places that posed any significant risk. However, this made
most
of the citizen activists mad, because in any prioritization some sites
end up
high on the list and others , lower. At their behest, Hazel O'Leary
eliminated the prioritization idea (and the NAS panel) and instituted
the
Citizens' Advisory Boards, following some meeting at the Keystone
conference
center in Colorado that resulted in the so-called "Keystone Accords"
that
gave "stakeholders" a voice in what to clean up and how to do it. And
here
we are!
Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com
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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 16:07:45 -0400
From: Pxrfcorp <tom@XRFCORP.COM>
Subject: Re: Radon Web Site
is this the cause of spontainious human combustion? <G>
Tom
William Prestwich wrote:
> Gee, I don't think I said that. All I said (or meant to say) was that 238U
> does undergo fission, but the radon is not produced in that decay mode.
> Bill
>
>
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