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- From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
- Subject: fallout from nuclear tests PERMEATES our world
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- >From: henkel@nepjt.ncsu.edu (Chuck Henkel)
- >Newsgroups: sci.energy
- >Subject: Radwaste from wood ash
- >Date: 12 Dec 91 17:46:05 GMT
- >Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh
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- Consider the following, from the "Notes and Quotes" section
- of this month's "ANS (American Nuclear Society) News:"
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- "While cleaning ashes from his fireplace two years ago,
- Stewart A. Farber mused that if trees filter and store
- airborne pollutants, they might also harbor fallout from the
- nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 1960s. On a whim, he
- brought some of his fireplace ash to Yankee Atomic Electric
- Company's environmental lab . . . where he manages
- environmental monitoring. Farber says he was amazed to
- discover that his sample showed the distinctive cesium and
- strontium 'signatures' of nuclear fallout. . . .
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- "[Further testing of wood ash across the U.S. suggests] that
- fallout in wood ash `is a major source of radioactivity
- released into the environment,' Farber says. . . . [Almost]
- all measurements of ash with fallout-cesium exceeded--some
- by 100 times or more--the levels of radioactive cesium
- that may be released from nuclear plants. . . .
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- "Industrial wood burning in the United States generates an
- estimated 900,000 tons of ash each year; residential and
- utility wood burning generates another 543,000 tons.
- Already, many companies are recycling this unregulated ash
- in fertilizers. The irony, Farber says, is that federal
- regulations require releases from nuclear plants to be
- disposed of as radioactive wastes if they contain even one
- percent of the cesium and strontium levels detected in the
- ash samples from New England. If ash were subject to the
- same regulations, he says, its disposal would cost U.S. wood
- burners more than $30 billion annually." (From "Wood Ash:
- The Unregulated Radwaste," "Science News," August 10, 1991)
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- | Chuck Henkel | There are currently 111 operating |
- | Department of Nuclear Engineering | nuclear power plants in the US, |
- | N.C. State University | generating nearly 100,000 Megawatts |
- | henkel@nepjt.ncsu.edu | of electricity. |
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- ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life
- in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating.
- 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
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