Re:"Radioactive fork, dear?"

[Rodney Bauman <rodney_bauman@wssrap-host.wssrap.com>]

> That's when BNFL Inc., nuclear technology firm, becomes the first company to
recycle
> metal from a nuclear facility...and sell them to scrap metal dealers.

Do the people who write these articles actually believe this to be true?!!!  Do
they think that nothing has ever been released from a contaminated area of
"nuclear facility" for use somewhere else?  This has been going on since the
dawn of the nuclear age at every "nuclear facility" in the world.  Can anybody
honestly say that they have worked at a nuclear facility where absolutely
nothing was deconned and free-released?  Everybody should know that
surface-contaminated items are surveyed to a detector/method background MDA and
nothing more.  These MDAs are based on "reasonably detectable" contamination
levels.  To say that items surveyed for free-release have "no radioactivity" on
them is an inaccurate statement.  I view this situation as no different than
what goes on everyday at "nuclear facilities" except that maybe the
contamination levels are a little bit higher.

Rodney Bauman, CHP, RRPT
rodney_bauman@wssrap-host.wssrap.com

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