Re: NORM Question

[avest@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Albert Lee Vest)]

>Has anyone had any experience with NORM buildups
>(particularly Ra-226 and Th-232) at paper mills?

No such experience per se, but I have noticed an olfactory association.
I've smelled the same offensive odor in three places:

1) Driving past a paper mill,

2) In locations where radium-bearing materials have been in storage for a
very long time, and

3) At the mineral-water wells in Saratoga Spa State (NY) Park, which emit
water containing minute amounts of radium, along with other minerals.

If I were to just "think with my nose", I'd have to believe there's a
connection.  But as everyone here 'nose', you can't smell radioactivity.

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