Re: From AP and AOL about Sr-90 exposure of lumberjacks in Georgia

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

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

An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Sonntag, 06. Jänner 2002 03:51

Betreff: From AP and AOL about Sr-90 exposure of lumberjacks in Georgia





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>

>Radioactive Material Hospitalizes 3

>

>By MISHA DJINDZHIKHASHVILI

>.c The Associated Press

>

>

>TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Three lumberjacks who found containers with highly

>radioactive materials in a forest were hospitalized in serious condition,

and

>hundreds of villagers living nearby have been thrown into panic, officials

>said Saturday.

>

>The two containers with strontium-90, believed to have been used in signal

>beacons during the construction of a nearby hydroelectric plant 30 years

ago,

>were found sometime last month near the village of Dzhvare, about 135 miles

>southwest of the capital Tbilisi.

>

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The containers found seem to be the ones, which were known for a long time

to be missing. In this case they would contain really tremendous amounts of

Sr-90 (I do not have the exact numbers at home). Irradiation would be from

bremsstrahlung.



There was not so long ago a mission of the IAEA and French collegues to

Georgia, who used the HELINUC system trying to find the missing radiation

sources from a helicopter. They could not locate the Sr-sources, but instead

found unexpectedly a Cs-137 source at the bank of a very small river.



Best regards,



Franz









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