Re: rad leak in upstate NY? -Reply

[William McCabe <WMCCABE@tnrcc.state.tx.us>]

Maybe the West Valley Demonstration Project?

William J. McCabe, Health Physicist
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
wmccabe@tnrcc.state.tx.us

>>> <julian.gibbs@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu> 12 May 97  10:23
>>>
     Could he be confusing a radiation leak with the Love Canal
affair near 
     Buffalo?  It was toxic chemicals, nothing to do with
radiation or 
     radioactivity.
     Julian Gibbs


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Subject: rad leak in upstate NY?
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at +inet
Date:    5/12/97 9:44 AM


Radsafers,
I had the opportunity to talk with a fellow Santa Fean and help
alleviate 
his concerns about living so close to Los Alamos.  For the
most part, I 
think I was successful at developing a report with him.  
     
During the discussion he wanted to ask about the "leak from
Three Mile 
Island".  I explained that TMI did not have a leak or release. 
He felt he 
was confusing TMI with a place in upstate New York.  He
seemed to recall a 
place that experienced some sort of radioactive leak, some
time ago, which 
led to many people leaving home.  After some reclamation
work, people are now 
moving back.  He did not know if this was a nuclear power
plant, or what.  
Obviously, since I don't have a clue what he's talking about, I
could not 
talk intelligently about it.  Can anyone tell me what he is
talking about, or 
has he been reading Mother Jones too much?
     
Thanks
Jeff Eichorst
Occurrence Investigator
Los Alamos National Laboratory
ESH-7, MS K999, Los Alamos, NM 87545 
505.665-6980  505.665-6977 fax
505.996-1117 digital pager, jeichorst@lanl.gov
     
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