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RE: No radioactive material on Columbia (other than smoke detecto rs)
Interesting feedback. And all the more reason for NASA to have avoided calling the Columbia wreckage potential 'radioactive material'. To call Columbia wreckage potentially hazardous because of radioactivity not only trivializes the concept of the 'exempt quantity', it could energize the frequently-news-media-quoted Michio Kaku's of this world to claim the "I told you so!" high ground after all of these years of denial from NASA that its programs do not threaten the Earth with 'hazardous' radioactivity.
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From: Wright, Will (DHS-PSB) [mailto:WWright2@DHS.CA.GOV]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:28 PM
To: 'Sandy Perle'; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; powernet@hps1.org
Subject: RE: No radioactive material on Columbia (other than smoke detecto rs)
i would assume that there must have been some small sources for calibration, antistatic and check sources type purposes?
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From: Sandy Perle [mailto:sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:37 AM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; powernet@hps1.org
Subject: No radioactive material on Columbia (other than smoke
detectors)
There has been much discussion recently speculating that there was
radioactive material on the space ship Columbia. This speculation was
fueled by pictures of responders walking around with radiation
detecting instrumentation, and, trucks placarded with radioactive
warning signs.
I just spoke to a high level NASA individual who has intimate
knowledge as to what was on the Columbia, what experiments they had,
and, the individual states categorically that the only radioactive
material on the Columbia were 11 smoke detectors, each containing <1
uCi. There were no radioactive experiments, no radioactive materials
of any kind, other than the household type smoke detector that we all
have in our homes.
Any assumed illnesses by local population I still believe to be "mass
hysteria" if they were not exposed to any of the chemical toxins on
board, or, if they were in fact ill, it was due to the chemical
toxins.
We can put this radiation scare rumours to bed now.
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