Re: CS-137 in animals

[Les Fraley <les@lamar.ColoState.EDU>]

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, JOHN E HUGHES wrote:

>      Group: Is CS-137 left over from the above ground weapons 
>      testing?
Yes.  About 50 % of the original fallout still remains, although it has 
been redistributed to a certain degree.  It is still possible to find 
137-Cs in surface soil samples, especially in undisturbed locations 
such as untilled pastures and graveyards.
Les Fraley
Colorado State University

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>      John Hughes
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>      "ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP ASKS HUNTERS TO SEND DEER PARTS"
>      BOSTON GLOBE ONLINE, 11/4/96, Associated Press
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>      The Wiscasset, ME-based Friends of the Coast on Monday told 
>      hunters that it would pay them $5 apiece for parts of deer 
>      caught near the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant so the 
>      remains can be tested for "man-made radioactive pollution."
>      
>      In a similar effort last year, the group received one deer. 
>      Ken Gray, spokesperson for the group, said that deer, taken 
>      4.7 miles downwind from the plant, was found to contain 
>      Cesium 137, a radioactive isotope found in nuclear plants 
>      and weapons.
>      
>      But Philip Haines of the state Bureau of Health denied a 
>      link between the Cesium 137 in the deer and the power plant. 
>      Haines:  "There is certainly no indication to us that it had 
>      anything to do with the plant."  Haines said the state, 
>      which paid for last year's deer testing,  is interested in 
>      the latest research effort, but he added that comparable 
>      studies need to be done on deer from other parts of the 
>      state.
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