Love Canal, radionuclides and wasted time

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  In response to Steve Dapra's continuing drone and din...

  Are there radionuclides in Love Canal? 

  You can bet your probe there are.

  Hooker Chemical is on AWE list --  Hooker = Love Canal. OK? So far?

  Hooker is in the NIOSH Report. OK?



    No radionuclides in Love Canal, Oh really, Steve? Ever been to Tte Canal? 

 

    Your most recent documentation is from 1985. At least you're citations 

are getting more up to date. Keep going.



    For six or seven years the DOD/US Army denied any involvement in the 

dumping at Love Canal (many eyewitnesses claim the contrary). When the suits and 

dust had settled though, the US Mil./DOD chipped in about $8 million dollars 

for the final capping, etc. Perhaps Steve, you weren't aware of the Cs137 that 

was found on the Love Canal site? The presence of this material was documented, 

and then I believe, accidentally or erroneously classified as being a surface 

contamination from fallout. It may be time for a reexamination of that 

finding and the facts involved. Any problem with that Steve?



   Unfortunately Steve, there are numerous records of Cs137 disposals in the 

form of "gap" avalanche-triggering devices (known as krytrons) that were 

delivered and buried in the area of the LOOW in Niagara County, only a few miles 

from the Canal. If the Cs137 found at Love Canal was from atmospheric testing, 

as a report claims, then this represents a deposition Hot Spot that was never 

fully investigated (sorry) and raises other serious questions about fallout 

tracking and reporting, inventory, record keeping, uptake, etc. I do, however, 

Steve, appreciate you opening this "Can-al of Worms."



    Let's see the NAA results or species origin (what's that term 

again--being able to detect which reactor or fission event the material was created 

from)?  Anyway, I hope you see what I mean. One can always hope.



    No testing, to the best of my knowledge was ever done for radiological 

materials WITHIN THE CANAL. If this testing was ever done within the canal 

itself, there are no public records for it that I've been able to find. I've been 

through the boxes. 

(If so, anyone care to cough them up?)



    Also, during the time the initial Cs report was offered, I believe that 

no consideration was given to the fact that these two same fission products 

were found within only a few miles of each other, in an area that supposedly had 

no reactor in operation nearby, and, that had recorded shipments of that 

isotope to the area.

Hmm.



Steve Dapra writes--

> In case you didn't know it,

> Louis, Love Canal had chemicals in it, not radionuclides.

>

> Steve Dapra@swcp.com

> 

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 Please don't be smart with me Mr. Dapra and please don't waste my time.   

 Did you see the citations I provided for the NIOSH reports that you harped 

about?    

 Have you finished them already? Or are you just wasting your time and mine?

  You can waste yours.



    Funny thing Steven, I was at the Love Canal site this past Friday with an 

associate of the Pauling Gang, and had a memory...that the capping and 

'remediation' work at Love Canal was done by a company which has now become one of 

the numerous large radiation remediation corporations working for the 

government at places like Oak Ridge, Paducah, Piccatinny and others. 



    Just a coincidence, I'm sure.



    Sincerely,

    Louis Ricciuti



Ps-AND Mr. Dapra, the references you provided are pitiful-

[1]. Is from a public works committee hearing in 1979. BEFORE the canal was 

even declared an emergency and before any testing was even done, and, [3]. Is 

an EDITORIAL Position 24 years old!   Hello in there?



    WOW, are we proud yet?  My recently calibrated (here) crap detecter is 

starting to click wildly now--nearly 100,00o CPM.  :*)



    NEXT.