[TheForge] Hellooooooo!

Mon May 8 16:36:32 EDT 2006

The way I heard it, it was rebar and office furniture and it was setting off detection equipment along the highway outside of White Sands several hundred feet down the road, and that is one truck they found, the others they have no idea where they went or who the goods were delivered to.

-Chris K.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant Marcoux" <gblacksmith at alamedanet.net>
> To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: RE: Re: [TheForge] Hellooooooo!
> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 13:31:33 -0700
> 
> 
> Chris:  Didn't this involve the manufacture of some....ahem...highly unusual
> fasteners?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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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.
> 
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> > 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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