Re: Limitations on looking for missing RAM, second attempt

[Erick Lindstrom <avrel@gemini.oscs.montana.edu>]

Radsafers,

Perhaps this gentleman is trying to describe an incident that occurred at the
University of Minnesota back in 1989 or 1990 (I think it was U of Minn -  I
apologize if I'm mistaken Golden Gophers).  Two vials containing P-32 and S-35
were thrown into a dumpster and subsequently made it to a landfill.  I believe
NRC ruled that the risks involved in trying to recover the lost material were
not worth taking (rooting around in garbage and "what-not").  I recall that
the
University had some "problems" with the local authorities however.

Wasn't this incident published in the Health Physics Newsletter?

Regards,

-Erick Lindstrom

At 02:48 PM 3/6/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I have not received a reply to my original request, so I am trying,
again.  Of
>course, I could 
>have imagined reading about the incident in a Health Physics Newsletter,
but I
>hope not.


Erick Lindstrom
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