banana oil and carbon adsorbers

["Roy Craft" <rcraft@wcnet.net>]

Dear RADSAFERS:

I was wondering if anyone knew of studies showing the effects of banana oil
(Isoamyl acetate or derivative )on activated or impregnated charcoal?

I know that in England, during W.W.II, they tested children for gas mask
fits by using banana oil.  I used it a very long time ago, but I did not
test it for effects on charcoal.

The direct application is a qualitative test of glovebox or hot cell
Adsorbers.

If you respond to me directly, I will pass on any information that I get to
each responder, and to RADSAFE.

Thank you,

Roy C. Craft
rcraft@wcnet.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Gawarecki <loc@icx.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 12:15 PM
Subject: Did the Nuclear Energy Lobby Derail 'Atomic Train'?


>More silliness . . .
>
>Did the Nuclear Energy Lobby Derail 'Atomic Train'?
>
>By Lisa de Moraes
>Thursday, May 13, 1999; Washington Post, Page C07
>
>NBC's "Atomic Train" controversy is now officially out of control and
>careening to the floor of the U.S. Senate, where it might explode this
>morning.
>
>Sen. Richard Bryan (D-Nev.) will blast NBC for removing all references
>to "nuclear waste" from the disaster miniseries, which debuts Sunday
>night, and charge that NBC parent General Electric caved in to pressure
>from the Nuclear Energy Institute. He says the main lobbying
>organization of the nuclear industry will stop at nothing to keep
>information about nuclear danger from the public--even to the extent of
>manipulating the content of a fictional TV movie. Bryan is currently
>battling two pieces of legislation that would allow thousands of tons of
>nuclear waste to be deposited in Nevada.
>
>"My sense is the network did an 'el foldo,' " the senator said late
>yesterday. "I cannot in all honesty prove that, but the circumstantial
>evidence is pretty strong--just days before the program was to air!" The
>circumstantial evidence is as follows: NBC is owned by General Electric.
>GE has a nuclear energy division. Its president is Steven Specker.
>Specker is on the executive board of the NEI.
>
>The NEI about two weeks ago issued a status report on the miniseries,
>which, until this week, was about a train--loaded with nuclear waste and
>a
>nuclear bomb--that goes out of control and careens toward Denver.
>
>The report detailed the "containment strategy" for the movie that it had
>adopted in consultation with representatives of the Energy Department
>and
>the American Association of Railroads. The strategy "is not a passive
>one," the NEI said, but an "aggressive effort prior to the broadcast" to
>"validate our point of view."
>
>"We certainly do not want to provide news outlets a reason to air a
>'could
>this happen in our town?' story," NEI added.
>
>After heavily promoting the miniseries as an "it-could-happen" disaster
>flick, NBC announced earlier this week that it had decided to remove any
>references to "nuclear waste," changing them to "hazardous material,"
>and
>that it would take the extraordinary step of running a disclaimer at the
>beginning of the miniseries saying that the events depicted are "pure
>fiction."
>
>"We were not pressured into this," an NBC spokeswoman said yesterday.
>"It was an internal NBC decision which arose from key executives in the
>company who had not seen the miniseries and saw it for the first time
>last
>week" when NBC decided to make the changes.
>
>NBC CEO Bob Wright and other East Coast executives were in Los
>Angeles last week to look at pilots for next season's prime-time
>schedule.
>
>Bryan wasn't the only one up in arms yesterday that "Atomic Train" had
>become Hazardous Material Train. His hue and cry was joined by a
>multitude of equally outraged nuclear watchdog groups.
>
>"One suspects that since GE has a nuclear arm and is not only on the
>board of the NEI but operates reactors, someone at GE may have been
>napping and then said, 'Hang on a sec,' " said Linda Gunter, spokeswoman
>for the Safe Energy Communication Council.
>
>"The fact that [the transportation of nuclear materials] is portrayed
>inaccurately is less important than the issue of dialogue. . . . NBC
>reaches a large audience and the NEI is trying to suppress dialogue by a
>'containment strategy.' The movie is fantasy and they've done some silly
>things for the sake of drama, but the fact is nuclear waste is being
>moved
>around."
>
>Adds Anna Aurilio, staff scientist for the U.S. Public Interest Research
>Group: "The scariest thing about this movie is that now the nuclear
>industry is trying to cover up any hint that transporting nuclear waste
>could be dangerous."
>
>An NEI spokesman dismisses their charge and says that his organization
>had nothing to do with the changes to the miniseries. Besides, he said,
>"I'm not aware that we shape public policy by what is sweeps-month
>special
>effects."
>
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>Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee, Inc.
>136 South Illinois Avenue, Suite 208
>Oak Ridge, Tennessee  37830
>Phone (423) 483-1333; Fax (423) 482-6572; E-mail loc@icx.net
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