Re: Article: Erin Brockovich takes on radiation

["Syd Levine" <"Syd Levine">]

logwell.com is my website, and I wrote the page mentioned below.  I-131 is occasionally used in producing wells, but far more often in injection wells where it would never be seen residually at surface.  I-131 is NEVER used in large quantities, nor is it continuously introduced into wells.  With a half-life of just over 8 days, I-131 is essentially all gone in less than three months, one of the reasons it is used for tracer work in the oil well logging biz.



NORM or well logging radioactive tracer material is certainly NOT the cause of the problems mentioned in the article.  A PNL employee ought to know better than suggest this list is junk science.



Syd H. Levine

AnaLog Services, Inc.

Phone:  270-276-5671

Telefax:  270-276-5588

E-mail:  analog@logwell.com

URL:  www.logwell.com

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

  From: Dukelow, James S Jr 

  To: Thomas M Lashley ; Jim Hardeman 

  Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 

  Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:17 PM

  Subject: RE: Article: Erin Brockovich takes on radiation





  Tom Lashley wrote:

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

  From: Thomas M Lashley [mailto:lashleyt@DTEENERGY.COM]

  Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 9:50 AM

  To: Jim Hardeman

  Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

  Subject: Re: Article: Erin Brockovich takes on radiation





   "Iodine 131, for  example, is regularly injected into oil wells."    Is Alex Baldwin part of this junk science project? 

  Tom Lashley 

  LashleyT@DTEenergy.com 



  Jim Hardeman wrote: 



     Colleagues - 



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    Thought y'all might enjoy the following article from LA Weekly. URL = http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/33/news-pelisek.php  



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    Perhaps RADSAFE is the junk science project.  A two minute Google search turns up the information that iodine-131 IS the current radio-isotope of choice for certain approaches to well logging.  See <http://www.logwell.com/tech/nuclear/RTS_RATS.html>/



    Best regards.



    Jim Dukelow

    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

    Richland, WA

    jim.dukelow@pnl.gov



    These comments are mine and have not been reviewed and/or approved by my management or by the U.S. Department of Energy.