Re: Scare tactics

[Gerald Laurence <aduchem@wantree.com.au>]

Bob Flood wrote
>I had a great deal of expereince with a uranium mill decommissioning
>project in the 80's and can say with some assurance uranium isn't the
>problem. These mills were built to EXTRACT the uranium - it's pretty much
>all gone. What's left in the tailings are the remainders of the uranium
>decay chain that were also in the ore with the uranium. From a dose
>perspective, radium dominates the mix of remaining stuff.
Absolutely 100% right. But there is enormous difficulty in convincing
people that the tailings problem is NOT uranium. Certainly if U is detected
in the drinkign water it must have coem from another source, and not the
tailings.
Gerald Laurence
RSO University of Adelaide


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