RE: French probe nuclear rail shipments

["Ing. A. Klerk" <boudewijn.klerk@tip.nl>]

Stewart,
The "normal" level (Meant is of course: the limit) is 3,7 or 4 Bq/cm2.
Typically the French seemed not to carry out wipe tests. Neither did
Greenpeace.....

Best regards from,
 Arie Klerk (Also known as: Boudewijn Klerk)
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> In a message dated 98-05-09 14:04:09 EDT, S. Perle reports:
>
> << PARIS, May 8 (UPI) _ The French government today launched a full
>  inquiry into reports that trains carrying nuclear waste from across
>  Europe to Normandy were contaminated at up to 500 times the normal
>  level.  >>
>
> Does anyone have any data as to what  is the "normal level" of
> contamination of
> these transport cars? It is hard to judge just what is being
> discussed here
> without some data as to whether they are talking about
> contamination level
> or perhaps exposure rate.
>
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