Re: Spanish source activity

[Bjorn Sandstrom <sandstrom@ume.foa.se>]

At 18:12 1998-07-03 -0500, J. J. Rozental wrote:

>c) According with the Spanish press information El Pais dated of June 30 
>http://www.elpais.es/cgi-bin/ELPAIS/vdkw_cgi@1121/xb5adadeb-1790/Search/2556
>684/1
>the source's activity in the incident of  Acerinox de Algeciras (Cadiz,
>Spain)  was roughly estimated in 10 milligram (~ 0.9 Ci) of Cesium Chloride,

There is a clear discrepancy of this value (~ 0.9 Ci) with the back
calculation the LLNL ARAC group has made based on the air concentrations
that were reported from various filter stations (n ~ 70 - 80) in Southern
and middle Europe. ARAC estimate a 50 Ci release. This is according to
their June 26 preliminary report.



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