Re: Radioactive Cobalt Is In Cove

[Robert A Scott <bobscottchp@juno.com>]

	Note also the article stated that the presense of Co-60 indicated that
fission by-products had escaped from the fuel rods.  Does this mean that
Co-60 is a fission product at Millstone?  Have the laws of physics
suddenly changed?????

>Marvin Resnikoff, a nuclear physicist and independent consultant 
>on radioactive waste issues, said the finding of cobalt-60 likely 
>indicates that metal tubes that enclosed nuclear fuel in the reactor 
>leaked. Byproducts of fission leaked into the cooling water and 
>then were released as gas to the air or with the water.  
>
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