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I did notice the military on the news standing in front of an
ion chamber detector while looking for parts.
If
NASA decided to call Columbia wreckage RAM to protect its quality as
forensic evidence knowing that it is not RAM, then that is a
most inappropriate decision and application of the spirit of radioactive
material safety regulations. Worse, the inordinate fear that much of the
public has about radioactivity can only be made worse. Not one to
second-guess NASA because of their being under duress from the accident,
but NASA and the new Homeland Security Department ought to set the record
straight with the public about Columbia 'RAM"
immediately.
-----Original Message-----
From: Flood, John
[mailto:FloodJR@NV.DOE.GOV]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 6:56
AM
To: RADSAFE
Subject: RE: Nuclear-powered spacecraft
plan feared
I think it likely
that the warnings took rad and non-rad hazards into consideration, but may
well have been mainly intended to keep people away so the materials wouldn't
be disturbed or stolen, thereby disrupting the
investigation.
-----Original
Message-----
From: High
Plains Drifter [mailto:magna1@jps.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:57
PM
To: Rad Safety
Institute; Susan L Gawarecki; RADSAFE
Subject: Re: Nuclear-powered spacecraft
plan feared
Nuclear Powered Space craft
feared......did anyone notice that the warning on shuttle debris and that
the military folks were monitoring objects for radioactivity and that the
truck and trailer taking items to the air base was placarded with RAM
signs! The warning about toxics, which were volatiles, appears to be
misleading and that the real hazard was radioactivity. Can anyone shed
some light on just what was aboard the shuttle that could possibly cause
1000's of fragments to be contaminated to such a degree!
----- Original Message -----
Sent:
Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:29 PM
Subject: Re:
Nuclear-powered spacecraft plan feared
This is a littlle whimsical,
but does anyone remember Project Orion? Also, bet the people wringing
their hands over possible accidents do not realize how many nuclear
weapons were crashed in the "good ol'
days".
Ed Battle
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, February 04,
2003 4:22 PM
Subject: Nuclear-powered
spacecraft plan feared
> I am weary of
anti-nuclear activists seizing on every accident as an
> opportunity
to say "imagine how much worse this would have been if a
> nuclear
[reactor, waste, material] had been involved." In the
meantime,
> out of irrational fears, we are losing the significant
environmental and
> efficiency benefits of applied applications of
nuclear power.
>
> My own personal opinion.
>
>
Susan
Gawarecki
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