Re: Cooling tower radioactivity

["schoenho" <schoenho@via.at>]

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> Von: GRAHNK@aol.com
> An: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Betreff: Re:  Cooling tower radioactivity
> Datum: Dienstag, 12. August 1997 22:31
> 
> The same stuff that plates out in municipal waters systems all over the
> country.  Radium.  
> Our local water system here here averages 27 pCi/liter and we frequently
> encounter naturally "hot" water lines in the course of our cleanup
> activities.
> 
> Opinions expressed are my own.
> 
> Kelly Grahn
> Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety
> West Chicago Field Office
> 
> Grahnk@aol.com
> or
> grahn@idns.state.il.us
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Is my information wrong that the maximum permissible concentration of
radium in drinking water is 3 pCi/l in the USA? 

Franz