[TheForge] Hellooooooo!

[Grant Marcoux]

Chris:  Didn't this involve the manufacture of some....ahem...highly unusual
fasteners?

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Chris Kilpatrick
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 9:40 AM
To: Sponsored by ABANA
Subject: Re: Re: [TheForge] Hellooooooo!


Funny,
     When I was going through Nuclear Power training, and we were going over
nuclear accidents in America; The Thresher incident, The Army's failed
Nuclear program, etc., we were told that the worst nuclear accident in North
America was from medical not reactor nuclear substances.  It involved a
texas hospital, a mexican hospital, an X-ray machine with a cobalt-60 source
and a storage unit, thieves, a scrap metal recycler, rebar, desks and some
sensitive equipment and white sands.

-Chris K.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: wmullett at bright.net
> To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: Re: [TheForge] Hellooooooo!
> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 12:30:40 -0400
>
>
> Medical waste is NOT the problem.
>
> "Reactor waste remains hazardous for a very long time. Most medical
> waste from treatment and diagnosis is hazardous for a very short
> time. Research and industrial waste can contain small amounts of
> some long-lived radioactive materials.
>
> Among the radioactive elements commonly found in nuclear reactor
> "low-level" waste are: Tritium, with a half-life of 12 years and a
> hazardous life of 120-240 years; Iodine-131, half-life of 8 days,
> hazardous life of 80-160 days; Strontium-90, half life of 28 years,
> hazardous life of 280-560 years; Nickel-59, half life of 76,000
> years, hazardous life of 760,000-1,520,000 years, and Iodine-129,
> half-life of sixteen million years, hazardous life of160-320
> million years.
>
> By contrast, common medical waste elements include Technetium-99m,
> with a half-life of 6 hours and a hazardous life of 2.5-5 days;
> Galium-67, half-life of 78 hours and hazardous life of 1-2 months;
> and Iodine-131, with its half-life of 8 days and hazardous life of
> 80-160 days.
>
> The vast majority of medical waste is hazardous for less than 8
> months. Yet, it is in the same category as reactor waste that will
> be hazardous for hundreds of thousands to millions of years.
>
> Clearly, the definition of "low-level radioactive waste" must be
> changed. It would make sense to redefine the more concentrated
> and/or longer-lived waste as high-level. Active recontainerization
> and operational control must be provided for the entire hazardous
> life of the waste, yet the NRC requires only 100 years of passive
> institutional control. Thus, waste hazardous longer than 100 years
> could be forgotten. Retrievability is essential. "
>
>
> From: "Chris Kilpatrick" <crimsonkil at lycos.com>
> Date: Mon May 8, 10:52 AM
> To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Hellooooooo!
>
> > 	It would be challenged, and rightly so.  Nuclear is not a good
> > long term solution, methinks.  The wastes are just too nasty.
>
>
> If you want to get rid of 94% of all nuclear waste in this country,
> stop the medical community from using nuclear medicine.
>
> It is I who formed the blacksmith,
> who fans the flame into a fire and
> fashions a weapon fit for it's work.
>
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