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RE: Niagara Transuranics and Hg mistake
John and other Radsafers
Isn't global warming (rising sea levels, etc) a more important reason to
stop burning fossil fuels?
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of John Jacobus
Sent: April 7, 2004 11:25 AM
To: NiagaraNet@AOL.COM; radsafe-digest@list.vanderbilt.edu
Cc: NiagaraNet@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: Niagara Transuranics and Hg mistake
Not to be a nucance, but I would still like to know if
mercury for coal burning contributes to mercury
contamination in the ocean/food chain. If so, we need
to stop burning coal and increase our use of nuclear
power.
--- NiagaraNet@AOL.COM wrote:
> RADSAFERS:
>
> I am concerned with the mistaken statement about the
> conversion of mercury in
> biota. This is not a small one, nor easily
> overlooked.
>
> Would anyone like to assist with my transuranics
> issues in the general
> Niagara Falls Niagara County area and the poor
> disposal practices of yore?
>
> Thanks to Jim Dukelow of PNNL for the heads up and
> clarification on this.
> .
> Regards,
> Louis Ricciuti
> Niagara County - "Los Alamos East"
> _____________
>
> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:35:49 -0400
> From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
> Subject: Re: Mercury scam?
>
> >Did you calculate the amount of mercury deposited
> in
> >the ocean from the burning of coal and other
> >industrial processes? What form is the mercury
> >entering the oceans? As an organic form that can
> be
> >absorbed by biota?
> >
> 3. Metallic mercury apparently can be methylated by
> marine organisms to form
> dimethyl mercury.
>
> Ruth F. Weiner
> ruthweiner@aol.com
> 505-856-5011
> (o)505-284-8406
> _______________
>
> Ruth,
>
> I think marine organisms methylate mercury to methyl
> mercury. Dimethyl
> mercury is extraordinarily toxic. In August 1996
> the Dartmouth chemist Karen
> Wetterhahn spilled a couple of drops of dimethyl
> mercury on her latex gloves. In
> January 1997 she was hospitalized with symptoms of
> mercury poisoning. She died
> a couple of months later. She had been following
> accepted guidelines for
> handling dimethyl mercury. The incident led to a
> revision of safety rules here
> at the laboratory. Methyl mercury is quite toxic,
> but not in the same ballpark
> as dimethyl mercury.
>
> Best regards.
> Jim Dukelow
> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
> Richland, WA
> jim.dukelow@pnl.gov
>
> *Was LATEX the recommended handling procedure?
> My sincerest sympathies to Karen Wetterhahn's
> family. How sad.
>
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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