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RE: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths
For everybody's info,
I looked at this website, and wanted to add some insight that may be
helpful. The person making the statement was taking nuclear accident
response training at Kirtland Air Force Base (also the home of Sandia
National Labs, but this training is conducted by the military, not Sandia).
As part of that training, there are some outdoor exercise areas that were
intentionally contaminated with low levels of rad material (I think thorium,
but not sure), and with simulated airplane or helicopter crashes. Sealed
sources were then used to create hotspots for the students to find. The
statement quoted below, and the discussion on the website, should have been
put into the proper context. There is no connection between these areas and
global fallout, as suggested here.
As of the last I knew a few years ago, some of those drill areas were still
in use. They are fenced, posted, and regularly monitored, and create no
hazard to anybody, except for the student that must dress out in double
anti-c's and respirators on a hot summer afternoon to enter the area. And
yes, those really were heat waves he was seeing - Albuquerque is a desert at
an elevation of about 5,000 feet, and the waves are quite obvious in the
summer.
Doug Minnema, PhD, CHP
National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE
< Douglas.Minnema@nnsa.doe.gov <mailto:Douglas.Minnema@nnsa.doe.gov> >
-----Original Message-----
From: dkosloff1 [mailto:dkosloff1@EMAIL.MSN.COM]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 6:30 PM
To: Franta, Jaroslav; RadSafe
Subject: Re: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths
The effect described below is quoted from another current USA Today
website: "We plotted alpha and gamma hotspots in sight of Albuquerque, New
Mexico. The alpha radiation was so intense you could see it, like heat waves
6 to 8 inches above the ground."
http://cgi1.usatoday.com/mchat/20020228004/tscript.htm
<http://cgi1.usatoday.com/mchat/20020228004/tscript.htm>
Don Kosloff dkosloff1@msn.com <mailto:dkosloff1@msn.com>
2910 Main Street, Perry Ohio 44081
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