Re: Russian nuclear dumping

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In a message dated 8/19/01 5:02:04 PM Central Daylight Time, 

franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT writes:



> Up to
>
> my knowledge similar situations occurred or occur in the USA.


The difference is that issues surrounding the Techa river and that weapons 

complex are probably several orders of magnitude worse than anything that 

ever occurred in the U.S.


If I recall from the HPS summer school years ago, what little exposure 

records of workers showed quite a few in excess of 500 rem over a year 

period...  Some may remember more about that presentation.


A lot of things were exceptable during the cold war, but it seems that there 

were different standards for the U.S. and U.S.S.R.


Glen Vickers