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The military personnel I saw were using GM or gamma
scint detectors of military issue. They were not PIDs since there was
coiled wiring going from the belt held unit to the square (?) detector
head. The placarding was hard to make out on the truck and trailer but it
was yellow.
Dean Chaney, CHP
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:24
AM
Subject: RE: Nuclear-powered spacecraft
plan feared
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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