Re[2]: CS-137 in animals

[BRZGV@ccmail.ceco.com]

     As far as effluents go, Cs-137 would be much more probable via the 
     liquid discharge pathway, not gaseous.  The "downwind" theory doesn't 
     sound physically plausible.  I would tend to think that the "fall out" 
     pathway is more credible than a potential liquid pathway from a 
     licensed facility.  
     
     Read the message someone wrote about deer in the Southeast and the 
     potential pathways.  That message sounds entirely reasonable.
     
     Glen Vickers


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Subject: Re: CS-137 in animals
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at INTERNET
Date:    11/7/96 8:41 AM


If the cesium is from the power plant and if it were released within 
the last several years, Cs-134 should be present. 
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>      Group: Is CS-137 left over from the above ground weapons 
>      testing?
>      
>      John Hughes
>      hughesj@songs.sce.com
>      ================================ 
>      
>      "ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP ASKS HUNTERS TO SEND DEER PARTS" 
>      BOSTON GLOBE ONLINE, 11/4/96, Associated Press
>      
>      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.
>      
>      
> 
> 
     
     
Jerry Rosen
     
University of Pittsburgh
Phone:  412-624-2728
Fax:    412-624-3562
Email:  Rosen@radsafe.pitt.edu