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Re: Drum fire at Idaho's Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility
With all of the talk on this list of educating the media, maybe someone
should start with the place the media gets their information from. Thank
god the radiation did not escape, they would have had to put out a
state-wide APB on missing electromagnetic energy, and then how would you
put it back in the container? What a conundrum that could have caused.
The devil is in the details.
> "The radiation did not escape the container and workers were not
> injured during the fire Wednesday morning, lab spokeswoman Ann Riedesel said.
Kim Merritt
Radiation/Laser Safety Officer
HazMed, Inc.
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA
(757)864-3210
<mailto:k.merritt@larc.nasa.gov>
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed herein are my own and do not
necessarily state or reflect those of NASA or the United States Government,
nor do they represent the official position of NASA.
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