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Rermarks: Re" SOURCE DESTROYED ACCIDENTALLY.AT PARIS AIRPORT "/ Re:Serbian Fuel???
Greetings,
Here are my weekly remarks on/to what I read on
the radsafe.
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1. "August 22, 2002
SOURCE DESTROYED ACCIDENTALLYDURING TRANSFER AT
PARIS AIRPORT
A medium-size iodine-131 source was dropped from
a
transfer dolly and crushed in Roissy Charles de
Gaulle airport"
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Obviously, nobody would worry about when in the
same time and in the same airport somebody was
flying out after a thyroid Rad. therapy procedure
and was using a restroom and(excuse my French)
spill the floor around the toilet with
millicuries
of I-131....
Who cares about that?
Obviously, just me.
2. Serbian Fuel?
What is so interesting in this topic?
Is the fact it is Serbian the country which
became so notorious famous after the Yugoslavia’s
break up war?
This subject been "discussed on the list for so
long that I started wondering....I are you guys
sure that...
a) Is it really, a Serbian Fuel?
I mean, does the Serbia really, has this ability
to produce a weapon grade uranium?
If so,
Then
It was a very technologically sophisticated
country and the world got lucky again and
destroyed "a secret nuclear program" like it was
done
57 years ago when somebody else in the same
neighborhood had gotten in the hands a weapon
grade uranium.
b) Or the fuel just went to where it came from?
Emil.
Subject: " SOURCE DESTROYED ACCIDENTALLY... AT
PARIS AIRPORT " [FW]
August 22, 2002
SOURCE DESTROYED ACCIDENTALLYDURING TRANSFER AT
PARIS AIRPORT
A medium-size iodine-131 source was dropped from
a
transfer dolly and crushed in Roissy Charles de
Gaulle airport
near Paris early this week, dispersing
radioactive powder in a
transit area between two terminals, French
authorities said Aug. 20.
Officials at regulatory agency DGSNR and the
Institute of
Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN)
said the
Aug. 17 incident was "highly unusual" because the
iodine
package had been "completely destroyed."
Patrick Gourmelon, head of IRSN's dosimetry and
health
protection department, said the 5-gigabecquerel
source (about
100 millicuries) would have caused only "very low
doses,"
below the 1 milliSievert limit for public
exposure, because the
volatile iodine was dispersed over a wide area.
But Jean-Luc
Pasquier, head of IRSN's Le Vesinet site (the
former rad
protection office OPRI), said the incident is
further demonstration
that "there's a dysfunction in transfer of
radioactive
materials at Roissy." IRSN issued a report on the
incident late
Aug. 20 following an inspection at the airport
Aug. 19(www.irsn.org).
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