Re: nuclear safety groups?- UCS

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Von: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM <RuthWeiner@AOL.COM>

An: SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM <SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM>; sfrantz@YAHOO.COM

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Datum: Dienstag, 06. November 2001 17:31

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>Thanks, Stewart.  I had a similar experience recently with a nuclear

>engineering professor(!) at U. of New Mexico, who claimed that the Sandia

>mixed waste landfill (that the local anti-nukes are now after) contained

>hundreds of curies of radiolithium from 40 years of landfilling.  So I

looked

>up lithium in my handy dandy Chart of the Nuclides and pointed out that the

>longest-lived radioisotope of Li had a half life of 0.84 seconds.  He

stared

>fixedly at the floor while I pointed this out, and corrected his statement

in

>his final report without ever acknowledging his mistake.

>

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Were you surprised? We have to cope with the most silly and even disgusting

claims every day. I would not be surprised if this silly statement would

have made it to the massmedia - and your correction would not.



Good advice to Norman Cohen to take up the issue of the contamination of

landfills with "radiolithium"? I guarantee that dozens of anti-nuclear

groups will forward this issue to local and state wide mass media. Your

remark about the half-life will sure not be mentioned.



Franz







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