RE: TFP update article, E Magazine

["Charlie Migliore" <cmigliore@envirocareutah.com>]

A trillion picocuries??????



What?????



Ok my car gets 60 billion micrometers per gallon and has a top speed of over

200 billion micrometers per hour.



Oh, you mean one curie.



Charlie Migliore



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

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[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]  On Behalf Of BERNARD L COHEN

Sent:	Monday, September 16, 2002 7:19 AM

To:	Norman Cohen

Cc:	Know_Nukes@yahoogroups.com; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject:	Re: TFP update article, E Magazine



> > So far, teeth from children born in Miami-Dade County and other

> > southeastern Florida counties have the highest concentrations of

> > strontium-90 in the United States, which might be explained by the

> > fact that two nuclear reactors there emitted 10.39 trillion picocuries

> > of radioactivity into the air between 1970 and 1987, an amount equal

> > to about three-fourths of all the radioactivity released during the

> > infamous Three Mile Island accident.



	--Strontium-90 has nothing to do with either of these situations,

Florida or TMI.



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