RE: MSNBC News Item - Uranium hunter follows trail of tiles

["Bruce Bugg" <obbugg@dmvs.ga.gov>]

>>Wagner argued that it would be reasonable to remove the offending tiles, or sandblast the tiles to remove the glaze. He said he would press for inspections of schools, as well as a legal requirement that properties be certified as "uranium-free" when they are sold. <<

 

And what do you do with all the Uranium-bearing dust generated in the sandblasting process? How do we make sure the dust is all captured, and then disposed of? 

 

How does he propose to define "Uranium-free?" Ah, the age-old question, "How clean is clean?" Can he tell me how to "certify" that my home property in suburban Atlanta, Georgia is "Uranium-free?" Could there be U-235 or other fission by-products here that drifted east from Nevada in the 1950's? Or Chernobyl in the 1980's?

 

On the other hand, it could be a whole new market for all the HP's out there... <g>

 

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

	From: Tosh Ushino, CHP [mailto:rad_chp@YAHOO.COM] 

	Sent: Fri 5/30/2003 8:41 PM 

	To: radsafe 

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	Subject: MSNBC News Item - Uranium hunter follows trail of tiles

	

	



	

	Uranium hunter follows trail of tiles

	

	By Alan Boyle

	MSNBC

	

	SAN FRANCISCO, May 30 —  Walter Wagner can see the

	radioactivity as he walks the streets of San

	Francisco: He stretches out his Geiger counter to a

	decorative tile on the facade of an apartment building

	— and sure enough, gets a chorus of clicks. Those

	sounds are what motivate the self-appointed sleuth’s

	campaign to root out radiation sources most people

	don’t know exist: the vintage uranium-glazed tiles in

	their kitchens and bathrooms, stairways and schools.

	

	



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