[ARC5] Hot meters.. more

[J. Forster]

>From another list:

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Subject:         Re: [MV] [R-390] Meters and Radium-226........ speedomtrs NEXT?

   Date:         Tue, 3 May 2005 20:09:55 -0700 (PDT)
   From:         Joe Foley <redmenaced at yahoo.com>
     To:         "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh at mil-veh.org>


--- DCrespy at aol.com wrote:
> Not too far off topic, I hope.  From the AVweb web  site.  (Wonder if they
have any R-390/390A  meters?)
>
> Harry  KG5LO
> Saline MI
>
> Hazardous Instruments Keep Pilots From  Planes
>
> At least 12 aircraft owners at Chino Airport in
> California have been unable
> to get to their airplanes for more than a month
> because of their neighbor's
> hobby of collecting luminescent dialed instruments.
> San Bernardino County
> officials say there are enough old airplane
> instruments painted with radium-226
> inside two hangars occupied by Preservation Aviation
> Inc. to create a radiation
>  hazard. Since March 10, authorities have barred
> access to neighboring
> hangars.  Airport manager James Jenkins told the
> Daily Bulletin that the neighboring
>  aircraft are not contaminated but the area around
> them is off-limits. The
> county  estimates it will cost more than $200,000 to
> collect all the instruments
> and  dispose of them safely. Because the county owns
> one of the hangars and
> the land  under the other, it will undertake the
> cleanup but will be looking to
> get the  money back from Preservation Aviation owner
> Jeff Pearson, who wasn't
> available  to comment. This is the second time the
> company has been at the
> center of a  radiation scare. The Chino
> investigation stemmed from the
> Environmental  Protection Agency's 2004 probe of a
> North Hollywood warehouse in which
> Preservation Aviation stored thousands of
> radium-containing instruments.
> Radiation levels in that warehouse were 100 times
> greater than normal. The Los
> Angeles Daily News reported at the time that the
> cost of that cleanup was $7
> million.

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Here is a link to the article:

http://www.avweb.com/newswire/11_18a/briefs/189679-1.html

-John