Re: " Suburb poisoned' by plutonium " [FW]

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>]

At 11:52 AM 7/13/01 -0400, Franta wrote:

>July 8 2001 BRITAIN 

>Suburb 'poisoned' by plutonium 

>Nick Fielding 

> 

>SOME of the highest levels of plutonium and uranium contamination recorded

>in Britain have been found in a home in a suburb in southeast England. 

>......................The house sample gave the highest reading: 54.9

>bequerels per kilogram (bq/kg) for plutonium isotopes 239 and 240. This is

>several hundred times more than background levels. 

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July 13, 2001



54.9 Bq/kg is 1.5 pCi/g, but the sample size was probably very small. No

one is being "poisoned" by this small amount. Northern hemisphere fallout

from nuclear weapons testing from 1950 to 1980 was 58 Bq/square meter of

soil surface (1570 pCi/square meter).



Otto







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