Re: Spanish source activity

["J. J. Rozental" <josrozen@netmedia.net.il>]

At 05:14 AM 7/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

Dear Dr.Sandstrom

In my message to RADSAFER, I also mentioned:

d) The above activity 10 milligram of Cesium Chloride should  to be
carefully considered since it was a press information. There is not a public
information on this subject from the Regulatory Authority.

I tried to get the information on the source's activity mailing twice  to e
mail csnweb@csn.es,  found in the Spanish Regulatory Authority's homepage
http://www.csn.es
I am sorry to inform that I didn't get any answer. This is a bad example of
Regulatory's Authority behavior.  This is also  attitude to explain  one of
the reason why public opinion  does not believe in Regulatory Authority.

Regards,

J. J. Rozental <josrozen@netmedia.net.il>
Israel
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