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radsafe-digest Friday, April 13 2001 Volume 01 : Number 033
In this issue:
Capitol radiation update
VARSKIN
Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
Bioassay companies
RE: VARSKIN
F-18 dose rates
Results of poll regarding radon monitoring
Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
RE: Vatican Antenna
Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
Re: F-18 dose rates
Is Nuclear Power Safe Enough for Your Backyard?
Re: Is Nuclear Power Safe Enough for Your Backyard?
Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
MOX fuel for TEPCO's Niigata plant gets green light
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:42:16 -0400
From: Steven Milloy <milloy@cais.com>
Subject: Capitol radiation update
Here's an update on the fallout (ha-ha) from the JunkScience.com
Capitol radiation study (http://www.junkscience.com/apr01/crmain.htm).
A media source tells me that a member of the public contacted her congressman
who requested that the Architect of the Capitol look into the radiation
hazards at
the Capitol.
The Architect actually had "experts" visit the Capitol to assess the
situation.
The "experts" reported there was no radiation hazard.
Now if only the Architect would hire the experts to review the proposed
Yucca Mountain exposure standards...
Steve Milloy
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:42:59 -0500
From: Larry Boing <lboing@ANL.GOV>
Subject: VARSKIN
A friend has asked me to post this message:
Where can he obtain a copy of the latest version of the VARSKIN skin dose
computer code?
Larry Boing
lboing@anl.gov
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:42:29 -0700
From: "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
At 06:32 PM 4/11/01 +0200, Dr. Karl Martin wrote:
>
>if you are interested in risk estimations for lung cancer in a German radon
>prone area please contact www.precura.de
*************************************************************
April 12, 2001
Davis, CA
This is a very interesting web site, but I was not able to turn on the
English version except for the "Introduction". My ancestry is very German,
but I am a native-born American whose reading of German is limited.
>From the graph of the raw data it looks as if there is a protective effect
below 500 Bq/m^3 since the relative risk is well below unity. What do your
think?
Otto
**********************************************
Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
Institute of Toxicology & Environmental Health
(Street Address: Bldg. 3792, Old Davis Road)
University of California, Davis, CA 95616
E-Mail: ograabe@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7754 FAX: (530) 758-6140
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:03:49 -0700
From: "Jenkins, Peter" <PJenkins@AHS.LLUMC.EDU>
Subject: Bioassay companies
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:29:53 -0400
From: "Morgan, Ben" <ben.morgan@PGNMAIL.COM>
Subject: RE: VARSKIN
Greetings:
VARSKIN can be obtained from the Radiation Safety Information Computational
Center (RSICC) at
http://www-rsicc.ornl.gov/rsic.html
Regards,
Ben
ben.morgan@pgnmail.com
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From: Larry Boing [mailto:lboing@ANL.GOV]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 12:43 PM
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Subject: VARSKIN
Importance: High
A friend has asked me to post this message:
Where can he obtain a copy of the latest version of the VARSKIN skin dose
computer code?
Larry Boing
lboing@anl.gov
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:34:51 +0000
From: Gary Isenhower <garyi@BCM.TMC.EDU>
Subject: F-18 dose rates
Many thanks to those who responded to my request for infomation.
I found just what I needed.
Thanks,
Gary Isenhower
Baylor College of Medicine
713-798-8353
garyi@bcm.tmc.edu
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:35:04 -0500
From: "Danny Anglin" <danny.anglin@VANDERBILT.EDU>
Subject: Results of poll regarding radon monitoring
I want to thank those that took the time to responds to my request on the
radsafe bulletin board. I received only 4 responses from universities with
radon monitoring programs and none from universities without programs. I do
not know if this means that there are only a few universities that have
radon monitoring programs. Below is my questions followed by a summary of
the results.
1. Do you have a program to measure and mitigate radon? If not, why not.
Four institutions said that they have radon monitoring programs. Two
institutions indicated that their state has environmental regulations that
require monitoring programs for radon levels. Both institutions are in the
same state. One of the two indicated that they only tested for radon levels
in the hospital and day-care facilities on campus in order to comply with
the state regulations.
2. If so, do you make measurements in resident halls?
Three of the four include resident halls in their monitoring program.
3. For resident halls, do you use a guideline other than the EPA limit of 4
pCi/l for Rn-222. (e.g., NCRP-91 guideline of 2 WLM per year or about 8
pCi/l).
Three use 4 pCi/l . The fourth institution that only monitors day-care and
hospitals also uses 4 pCi/l.
4. For the workplace do you use EPA guidelines or occupational limits as
defined by OSHA. (We have a consultant that has recommended that
concentrations of less than 7.5 pCi/l (Rn-222) averaged over one year need
not be mitigated. He based it on the definition of airborne radioactivity
area in the OSHA standard. My understanding is that 10 CFR regulations in
effect in 1971 still apply under OSHA regulations).
The three institutions that performs monitoring in occupational settings use
4 pCi/l.
Other comments:
1. One university provided the following comment concerning new
construction:
For new construction, a soil gas and radium measurement are required as part
of the site investigations. If the radon potential is high, a passive radon
mitigation system is required - basically a mat is placed below the slab and
pvc pipes are run to the roof with provision for a blower to be added later
if necessary. Radon levels are checked prior to bldg occupancy.
2. A university that has performed 1200 individual tests since 1988 in 250
buildings provided the following comment:
Initially, we used the EPA residential criteria and recommendations to
prioritize buildings for additional investigation or mitigation. Typical
follow-up actions have been additional testing (to confirm annual average
radon concentrations and evaluate seasonal fluctuations), installation of
small ventilation fans, evaluation of building HVAC systems, and
installation of radon mitigation systems.
Lately, our focus has been more on follow-up testing than mitigation. It's
partly because we want to make sure that mitigation is warranted rather than
acting on a one-time test result. Another factor is that we've used up the
state funding the state gave us several years ago for use on radon, and the
operating units are trying to figure out how to fund additional work.
Where mitigation systems were installed (office buildings, classroom
buildings, residences, and dorms), our follow-up testing has shown that the
systems and ventilation fans have been effective in reducing radon
concentrations. Ongoing maintenance of the systems can be a challenge.
- ----------------------------------------
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Vanderbilt Environmental Health & Safety
Danny.anglin@vanderbilt.edu
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Fax: 615-343-4951
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:35:08 +0200
From: "Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>
Subject: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Otto G. Raabe <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>
An: Dr. Karl Martin <precura.martin@T-ONLINE.DE>;
radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Cc: conrady@plasmaphotonics.de <conrady@plasmaphotonics.de>;
juergen.lembcke@notghi.com <juergen.lembcke@notghi.com>
Datum: Donnerstag, 12. April 2001 21:16
Betreff: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
>
>This is a very interesting web site, but I was not able to turn on the
>English version except for the "Introduction". My ancestry is very German,
>but I am a native-born American whose reading of German is limited.
>
>From the graph of the raw data it looks as if there is a protective effect
>below 500 Bq/m^3 since the relative risk is well below unity. What do your
>think?
I agree that this web site could be very interesting, but I - a native
Austrian with German as his mother tongue - could not download all I would
have liked to. The graph mentioned by Otto is extremely interesting, not to
say, sensational, and it should be made accessible to the community of
radiation protection scientists.
On the other side, isn't it a pity that most important new findings might
not be distributed because of sub-optimal presentation?
Franz
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:05:47 -0500
From: rob.w.powell@exxon.com
Subject: RE: Vatican Antenna
Recently there was a series of notes about RF radiation. Does anyone know where I can find a probe(s)/meter(s) to measure 125 kHz radiation per the ACGIH (American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists) limits:
E (V/m) = 614
H (A/m) = 130
induced current = 100 mA (at contact) ?
For instance, one vendor's probe can measure E up to 2000 V/m, but H up to only 2 A/m. Their only probe that can measure H above 130 A/m has a lower frequency limit of 300 kHz.
Thanks!
Rob Powell
ExxonMobil
Safety, Health, & Environment
Medicine and Occupational Health-Americas
Shared Services Center-Baytown
281-834-2854 FAX 281-834-5757
e-mail: rob.w.powell@exxon.com
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:43:23 -0600
From: "Fritz A. Seiler" <faseiler@NMIA.COM>
Subject: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
Hi All,
The Schneeberg report has just given Bernie Cohen, Joe Alvarez and myself a
beautiful Easter Egg! That is a wonderful confirmation of Bernie Cohen's much
maligned data and a push for his and our analysis. All you have to do is to
compare the figure in the Schneeberg Study with Fig. 1 of our analysis in,
Seiler, F.A., and J.L. Alvarez, "Is the' Ecological Fallacy' a Fallacy?" Hum.
Ecol. Risk Assess. 6, 921-941 (2000).
and voila! Well done, Schneeberg authors! I send this also to RASA-EU
and hope to reach you that way. Ich wuensche Euch Allen Schoene Ostern!
Happy Weekend,
Fritz
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discovers that it can bribe the Public with the Public's money."
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Democracy in America
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Sigma Five Consulting
P.O. Box 1709
Los Lunas, NM 87031, USA
Tel. 505-866-5193
Fax. 505-866-5197
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:17:02 -0700
From: "Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>
Subject: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
Franz,
I also had trouble understanding this website. Could you please tell us
in simple english what "sensational" insight you gained. Danke , Jerry
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Franz Schoenhofer <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>
To: Otto G. Raabe <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>; Dr. Karl Martin
<precura.martin@T-ONLINE.DE>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Cc: <conrady@plasmaphotonics.de>; <juergen.lembcke@notghi.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Otto G. Raabe <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>
An: Dr. Karl Martin <precura.martin@T-ONLINE.DE>;
radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Cc: conrady@plasmaphotonics.de <conrady@plasmaphotonics.de>;
juergen.lembcke@notghi.com <juergen.lembcke@notghi.com>
Datum: Donnerstag, 12. April 2001 21:16
Betreff: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
>
>This is a very interesting web site, but I was not able to turn on the
>English version except for the "Introduction". My ancestry is very German,
>but I am a native-born American whose reading of German is limited.
>
>From the graph of the raw data it looks as if there is a protective effect
>below 500 Bq/m^3 since the relative risk is well below unity. What do your
>think?
I agree that this web site could be very interesting, but I - a native
Austrian with German as his mother tongue - could not download all I would
have liked to. The graph mentioned by Otto is extremely interesting, not to
say, sensational, and it should be made accessible to the community of
radiation protection scientists.
On the other side, isn't it a pity that most important new findings might
not be distributed because of sub-optimal presentation?
Franz
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:39:26 -0000
From: "Tom English" <englishtoma@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
Franz and Otto,
I was able to download the major study from the website Karl gave below.
The paper is over 50 pages in length. It looks like the results agree with
Bernie's studies.
Karl,
Where has the paper been submitted for publication?
How many subjects are in each exposure category?
Are all the cancers cases from people diagnosed within the last few years?
Tom English
englishtoma@hotmail.com
>From: precura.martin@T-ONLINE.DE (Dr. Karl Martin)
>Reply-To: precura.martin@T-ONLINE.DE (Dr. Karl Martin)
>To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
>CC: conrady@plasmaphotonics.de, juergen.lembcke@notghi.com
>Subject: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:32:03 +0200
>
>Dear colleages,
>
>if you are interested in risk estimations for lung cancer in a German radon
>prone area please contact www.precura.de
>
>This homepage presents (in German and English) results from radon research
>for
>the last five years in a study population with special characteristics:
>
>1. Population study - Schneeberg Study
>
>Highly exposed to indoor radon with a wide range from 50 Bq/m³ to > 3.000
>Bq/m³.
>The exposed fraction of the population is very high.
>The majority of the study population of women are non-smokers.
>The population has a very low residential mobility.
>The study region is included in a cancer registry since 1952 to the present
>day.
>
>The study population of 72 cases and 288 controls is small but the power is
>due
>to its special characteristics high. In the ongoing research more cases
>will be
>included to improve the CI in lower radon categories.
>
>2. Miner study
>
>Results are presented in a preliminary form only (abstract). The study
>includes
>1.664 lung cancer cases (971 are uranium miners) and 1.664 controls. Risk
>estimations for lung cancer due to occupational radon exposure are
>controlled
>for smoking, silica, arsenic.
>
>Friendly regards,
>
>Karl Martin
>
>================================================
>PreCura Institute for Preventive Medicine
.
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:42:51 -0400
From: "JOHN JACOBUS" <JENDAY1@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Subject: Re: F-18 dose rates
Gary,
I would recomment going to Radiation Internal Dose Information Center
(RIDIC) at http://www.orau.gov/ehsd/doses.htm and downloading the first
selection, "A compendium of dose estimates for many radiopharmaceuticals
(Word)." As an alternative this site is linked to RIDIC:
http://www.internaldosimetry.com/linkedpages/raddosetables.html
- -- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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Bowie, MD 20715-2024
jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
Gary Isenhower wrote:
I am looking for references on dose rates from patients injected with F-18
for
PET scanning. Does anyone know where I can find such? Thanks in advance
for
any help.
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:40:59 -0700
From: "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
April 13, 2001
Davis, CA
I have not been successful in locating the link to the 50-page rdaon in
English. Could you post the URL?
Otto
**********************************************
Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
Institute of Toxicology & Environmental Health
(Street Address: Bldg. 3792, Old Davis Road)
University of California, Davis, CA 95616
E-Mail: ograabe@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7754 FAX: (530) 758-6140
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:48:13 -0000
From: "Tom English" <englishtoma@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
Otto,
The URL does not take you directly to the paper. Go back to the website and
look under the link on the left labeled publications, then click on
Vollständiger Bericht 600kB!!
Tom English
>From: "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>
>To: "Tom English" <englishtoma@HOTMAIL.COM>, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
>Subject: Re: Radon epidemiology - Schneeberg Study
>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:40:59 -0700
>
>April 13, 2001
>Davis, CA
>
>I have not been successful in locating the link to the 50-page rdaon in
>English. Could you post the URL?
>
>Otto
>**********************************************
>Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
>Institute of Toxicology & Environmental Health
>(Street Address: Bldg. 3792, Old Davis Road)
>University of California, Davis, CA 95616
>E-Mail: ograabe@ucdavis.edu
>Phone: (530) 752-7754 FAX: (530) 758-6140
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:23:09 -0700
From: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: MOX fuel for TEPCO's Niigata plant gets green light
Index:
MOX fuel for TEPCO's Niigata plant gets green light
Chao To Handle Nuclear Benefits
Italy Turns Off US Navy Radio Masts Amid Emissions Concern
Exelon Faces Strike Vote by Union for 8,000 Illinois Workers
=====================================
MOX fuel for TEPCO's Niigata plant gets green light
NIIGATA, Japan, April 13 (Kyodo) - The Agency for Nuclear and
Industrial Safety on Friday issued a certificate to Tokyo Electric
Power Co. (TEPCO) stating that the company's plutonium-uranium
mixed oxide (MOX) fuel imports have passed safety inspection.
The agency issued the certificate for the 28 containers of MOX fuel
imported from Britain for use in the No. 3 reactor of TEPCO's
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture on
the Japan Sea coast.
TEPCO submitted to the central government a plan for periodic
plant inspections that is expected to take effect next Tuesday, but
it did not state whether the company will use the MOX fuel in the
thermal reactor or instead use uranium fuel.
The utility had planned to begin the project on Tuesday, the first
day of the inspection, but the Niigata prefectural government has
been reluctant to allow Japan's first nuclear plant to use MOX fuel.
''The company will continue to make efforts to obtain understanding
from local residents and will decide whether to use the MOX fuel in
the inspection after analyzing the situation with regard to the
locals,'' reads the plan. The inspection is to finish July 13.
The company said it hopes to decide by June whether it will begin
using the MOX fuel in the reactor.
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, which comprises seven
reactors, has an output of 8,212,000 kilowatts, the largest in the
world.
The company's move follows its decision late March to postpone
implementation of a similar project at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
MOX, a pellet mixture of uranium dioxide and plutonium dioxide, is
designed to be burned in light-water reactors, a process known as
plutonium thermal use. Plutonium is obtained by reprocessing
spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants.
The electricity industry plans to use MOX fuel in 16-18 reactors by
2010. The project was originally scheduled to be launched in 1999.
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Chao To Handle Nuclear Benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) Apr 13 - Labor Secretary Elaine Chao
changed her mind and is willing to supervise compensation for
nuclear weapons workers disabled or killed by Cold War-era
exposure, a spokesman for Sen. George Voinovich said Thursday.
Labor Department officials spent much of Thursday on the phone
with senators and Senate aides trying to build support for changes
Chao wants as a condition for taking on the new entitlement
program.
The department would not discuss its efforts nor confirm the
comment by Voinovich's office that she is ready to take over.
``No decision has yet been made,'' Labor spokesman Stuart Roy
said. ``The options include keeping it at Labor and moving the
program to another agency.''
Voinovich's spokesman, Scott Milburn, said Chao wants to extend
a July 31 deadline for getting the program started and wants to
change the appeal process for rejected claims.
Congress gave the Labor Department $60.4 million to initiate the
program, reasoning it was well-prepared because Labor already
runs three worker compensation programs.
But the new Labor secretary insisted the Justice Department was
better equipped to run the program for workers who became ill from
being exposed to uranium dust, beryllium particles or lung-clogging
silica.
Lawmakers who worked hardest to get the program enacted
quickly told the White House they opposed moving it.
Ten House members introduced a bill to force the Labor
Department to run it, and uranium plant workers in Paducah, Ky.,
turned their union hall into an impromptu phone bank.
They repeatedly contacted the offices of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-
Ky., urging him to persuade Chao, his wife, to handle the program.
The new program offers lifetime medical care and $150,000 to ailing
workers who were employed in the nuclear weapons complex, at
factories that worked for the Energy Department, or at nuclear test
sites in Alaska and Nevada.
By law, the government should be prepared to accept benefit
applications on July 31.
The new program is limited to those with cancer associated with
radiation, silicosis or chronic beryllium disease. Eligibility rules for
some workers have been set by law, and the Labor Department
must work out qualification guidelines for the rest.
About 600,000 people worked in the weapons complex during the
Cold War.
The Energy Department initially estimated 3,000 to 4,000 might be
eligible for compensation, but there's a lot of uncertainty because
of poor record-keeping over the decades.
For instance, after former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
employee Joe Harding died, his bones were found to contain 1,700
times to 34,000 times the expected concentration of uranium
Yet while he lived, Harding was denied worker compensation
because official records showed he was exposed to paltry levels of
radiation.
Harding also suffered from sores that wouldn't heal and sprouting of
fingernail- and toenail-like growths on his palms, the bottoms of his
feet, his knee caps, knuckles, wrists and elbows.
The testimony of his widow, Clara Harding, helped build support for
compensation.
The Energy Department preliminarily identified 317 sites in 37
states where exposed workers might qualify for benefits.
A toll-free number set up by Energy to field requests, 1-877-447-
9756, has logged more than 19,000 calls.
On the Net: Text of compensation law, preliminary list of sites
prepared by Department of Energy:
http://tis.eh.doe.gov/advocacy/index.html
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Italy Turns Off US Navy Radio Masts Amid Emissions Concern
Rome, April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Italy blacked out two radio
transmitters beaming music to the U.S. Navy in the Mediterranean
amid concern about health risks from electromagnetic radiation,
Corriere della Sera reported, citing Agriculture Minister Alfonso
Pecoraro Scanio.
Judges forced a total of 12 transmitters on Naples' Camaldoli hill to
be turned off after they were found to emit radiation 55 times above
government limits, the newspaper said.
Environment Minister Willer Bordon this week tried to close the
Vatican's radio transmitters after people living close to its
broadcasting towers near Rome were found to suffer from higher
rates of cancer. Prime Minister Giuliano Amato gave the Holy See
more time to reduce radiation levels while Health Minister Umberto
Veronesi, an oncologist, dismissed health fears.
The radiation levels on Naples' Camaldoli hill were higher than
those recorded in Cesano, where Vatican Radio's transmitters are
located, Corriere said.
``We live in a microwave oven,'' said Giovanni Colaleo, who lives
100 meters from the Camaldoli hill masts, according to the Italian
daily.
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Exelon Faces Strike Vote by Union for 8,000 Illinois Workers
Chicago, April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Exelon Corp., the owner of
Chicago's Commonwealth Edison utility, faces a strike vote this
month from a union representing about 8,000 Illinois employees
over the company's attempt to cut 588 jobs.
Exelon, formed in October when Philadelphia-based Peco Energy
Co. bought Chicago's Unicom Corp. for $9.77 billion, says the
positions at Com Ed and its nuclear-power business are redundant.
Leaders of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union
Local 15 rejected a three-year contract proposal on Monday, nine
days after the previous agreement expired, spokesman Thomas
O'Reilly said. The union will vote on whether to authorize a strike
after leaders meet with members across Illinois, he said.
``This is not about money,'' O'Reilly said. ``It's about jobs that we
have that they want to turn over to supervisors or outside
contractors.''
The company is offering a year's severance pay and benefits to
workers who voluntarily resign or take early retirement, spokesman
Don Kirchoffner said. Remaining union workers would get annual
3.5 percent raises and job protection, he said.
Exelon employs more than 30,000 people. The Chicago-based
company also operates Philadelphia's Peco Energy Co. utility and
has been acquiring small electricity, gas, heating and cooling,
cable and telecommunications companies.
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