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To: XJarhead
Just because radiation readings go off the chart does not mean its weapons-grade stuff.

Possibly, if they are very sloppy people. But if they were running a legit program such as making colbalt sources for medical or industrial imaging purposes, the area would be a lot cleaner. If they were reprocessing spent fuel for Pu extraction, they would generate lots of very high level byproducts that would send readings "off the chart".

89 posted on 04/09/2003 2:17:56 PM PDT by Ditto (You are free to form your own opinions, but not your own facts.)
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To: Ditto
Legot uses (Co 60 for medicine) would require ONE ROOM for storage, dry, with NO WASTE WATER DRUMS. The Co is highly radioactive; very, very little else is.

Only minor waste like survey papers, filters, rags, uniforms, masks ... Simple low-level wastes.
101 posted on 04/09/2003 3:14:45 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (ABBCNNBCBS (continue to) Lie!)
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