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RE: Dose Rate in Bragin, Belarus
My European road atlas shows both Chornobyl and Pripyat as being about 6 to 7 km east of a southern salient of Belarus and Pripyat about 7 or 8 km south of the Belarus border. Chornobyl is approximately 15 km upstream from (south of) the Belarus border on the Pripyat River. There is a village Brahin, about 30 km north of Chornobyl. Since Russian transliterates Hollywood as Gollywood, Brahin and Bragin/Bregin may be the same place.
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.
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From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of Franz Schönhofer
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:50 PM
To: 'Careway, Harold A. (GE Energy)'; 'Radsafe (E-mail)'
Subject: AW: Dose Rate in Bragin, Belarus
Franz Schoenhofer
PhD, MR iR
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
AUSTRIA
phone -43-0699-1168-1319
Harold,
The message from your associate seems mysterious.
I do not know, where Bregin or Bragin is, but I know for sure that Chernobyl is in the Ukraine and that it is quite a distance to the border of Belarus from there - sorry I did not want to waste the time to look up the exact numbers. The NPP was situated on the river Pripyat, Chernobyl being some miles away. Across the Pripyat river there is no Belarus, not even 5.5 miles away. So what river is she talking about?
My dictionary says that "quire" refers to a a certain number of sheets of a special paper format for book printing. For "quire points" no entry could be found. If 12 quire points would be a normal amount of radiation (what is that? Where was that measured etc. etc.) 68 quire points would be about five to six times background "radiation" (dose rate? cpm?). This would correspond to the increase in dose rate when moving from a lime-stone area to a granitic one. So forget about it!
Even more mysterious the fact seems to me that your associate claimed, that she was 5.5 miles from the (former) NPP of Chernobyl. To my knowledge there still exists the socalled "30-miles exclusion zone" which can only be visited with special permission. It is well known that residents returned illegally, but they are natives of this area and very old. What is your associate doing in the exclusion zone? Did she illegally enter this area? Has she been on a "sightseeing tour"? Then she should have been accompanied by some specialists. Is she pretending to do some research? Then she should know fundamentals of radiation protection.
Are you sure that this is not a hoax by a journalist?
Best regards,
Franz
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-
> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] Im Auftrag von Careway, Harold A. (GE
Energy)
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. September 2004 19:37
> An: Radsafe (E-mail)
> Betreff: Dose Rate in Bragin, Belarus
>
> I received the following question indirectly from an associate. "Where
> we were (Bregin - 5.5 miles from Chernobyl right across the
river)
> the radiation level is 68 quire points versus 12 quire points a normal
> amount of radiation. The question that I have is this how long could
we be
> in that intensity without suffering long-term physical harm. I would
like
> to
> go back again. "
>
> I'm sure she was referring to Bragin, Belarus but for the life of me
I
> can't guess what a "quire point" is. I assume she miss heard the
word.
> I've reviewed IAEA report IAEA-TECDOC-1240, "Present and future
> environmental Impact of the Chernobyl Accident" and perhaps I can get
an
> idea of the annual dose rate from it, but I would really appreciate
any
> insight or references which might help.
>
> Harold A. Careway
> <mailto:harold.careway@gene.ge.com>
> 1-408-925-6008
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