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Bugs May Spread Radioactivity

There was also the pigeon observed drinking from the spent fuel pool.  When it turned up dead, soon after, it was added to a rad waste drum.  I doubt that the death was radiation induced.  The power plant was a PWR with borated water in the SFP.  Natural causes, chemical effects, who knows?

Mike McCarty
Health Physicist/Emergency Planner
mccartmj@state.mi.us

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Drinking Water and Radiological Protection Division
Radiological Protection Section
Nuclear Facilities Unit
   phone:  517-335-9414
     fax:  517-335-8706

mailing address:
     Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
     Drinking Water and Radiological Protection Division
     3423 North Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
     P.O. Box 30630
     Lansing, MI 48909-8130

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