[R-390] Meters and Radium-226

[rbethman at comcast.net]

Simple.  NOW, EPA has much "stricter" rules and regulation.  California has their "own" set of environmental rules and regulations that ADD to the Federal ones.

When "Uncle" did "their" thing, times WERE different.  A whole lot of things were deep sixed.

Uncle STILL deep sixes things today, BUT not those of obvious environmental sensitivity.

My T-213, a depot re-done BC-610 in 1959, was destined to go aboard a ship and be tossed over board.  This was in lieu of putting into DRMO for sale as surplus.  The base was closing, and these were found in a warehouse.

"Times they are a changin' ".

Bob - N0DGN


> 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 ----- 
> From: <DCrespy at aol.com>
> To: <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> 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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