[R-390] Meters and Radium-226

[Cecil Acuff]

What's so expensive about boxing them up while wearing a protective suit and 
dumping them in the ocean.  That's what was done with the R-390A meters as I 
understand it...and I'll bet the military guys didn't have the suits.

Cecil..
----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:33 PM
Subject: [R-390] Meters and Radium-226


> 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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