RE: What to do ? ? ?

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

Your friend probably got their information from the "Deadly Radiation

Hazards" website or another of that ilk.  I won't dignify it by posting the

URL.  The entire site is horse manure from one end to the other.  As an

example, and probable origin of your friends concern, it places operating

reactors inside Idaho Falls (which I-15 passes through) which were two

counties away and were defueled, decommissioned, and demolished around 30

years ago.  They were hostile to suggestions that they get a clue, and tell

the truth about the locations.



Okay, so I wasn't real polite about it ...  :-)



Dave Neil



-----Original Message-----

From: Richard L. Hess [mailto:lists@richardhess.com]

Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 5:12 PM

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: What to do ? ? ?



 From personal observation, there are a lot of people who do over-react to 

these risks.



I drove to Waterton/Glacier Park (and beyond) a few weeks ago, and when I 

showed a friend of mine (a native of Montana) the route I was taking (I-15 

to I-90) he said, "I wouldn't drive that route without a Geiger counter." 

So I went and got an Aware RM-70 unit and connected it to my HP 100LX palm 

top and took a constant log of the radiation exposure on essentially the 

entire trip.

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