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["Erik F. Shores" <eshores@LANL.GOV>]

At 03:46 PM 2/19/2002 -0500, Norman Cohen wrote:

>Does this mean that everything at Brookhaven was hunky-dory? You don't 

>consider this report...serious?



Personally, I find such articles interesting. These stories typically find 

their way to family or friends who are often surprised when I suggest many 

nuclear-related installations have such monitoring programs...



At any rate, based on some member's concerns, I thought I'd share some 

potential resources to provide additional information.



For example, annual summaries of the Los Alamos environmental surveillance 

program (e.g. Report LA-13343-ENV, "Environmental surveillance and 

compliance at Los Alamos during 1995") are available through LANL's on-line 

library. Among the tables of data are:



"Table 6-16. Radionuclide Concentrations in Muscle and Bone Tissues of Elk 

Collected On-Site..."  and "Table 6-17. Total Committed Effective Dose 

Equivalent from the Ingestion of Elk Muscle and Bone..." These estimates 

make for interesting reading and contain dose estimates for "average" and 

"maximum exposed" individuals. All values are below 1.0 mrem/yr.



This latter table notes the dose calculations were based, in part, "on the 

total consumption of a 233 kg elk" (per year per 4.5 person family). 

Radionuclides in the assay include: H-3, Sr-90, Cs-137, Pu-238, and Pu-239.



One of the groups handling such information can be found here:



http://www.esh.lanl.gov/%7Eesh20/



Best Regards,

Erik

________________________________________

Erik F. Shores

Los Alamos National Laboratory

ESH-12, Radiological Engineering Team

Mailto:eshores@lanl.gov

505.665.7643 (phone)

505.667.9726 (facsimile) 



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