Re: Texas LLRW site

[Laurie Taylor <laurie-taylor@uiowa.edu>]

Wasn't the radon activity released from the Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980
on the order of millions of curies?  Does anyone know a reference in the
literature for this?

Thanks!
Laurie Taylor, Health Physics Associate
The University of Iowa - Health Protection Office
laurie-taylor@uiowa.edu
319/335-8501



At 07:44 PM 10/22/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission just denied the
>> license application for the Sierra Blanca site.  Reasons were that
>> sufficient followup on geological stability was not done.
>
>So... "Come back in 300 years" :-)
>
>Ignorance is pervasive. "Any rad is bad." 
>
>Recent radsafe messages have shown the mockery of literacy that engender the
>costly pursuit of non-hazards, from radon down to fallout and Hanford I-131
>(ignoring the lack of effect from 10s millions of people with medical
>exposures). 
>
>They are ignorant and gullible enough to believe that LLW can be a hazard
>(while living in thousands of times more rad, carelessly disposed of by
>nature, and people living downwind in the millions of times greater release
>from Mt. St. Helens, which is of course of no consequence. Innumeracy is
pandemic.
>
>Regards, Jim Muckerheide
>muckerheide@mediaone.net
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