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Title: Potentially contaminated Hanford equipment sent off site
Post by: Jason9x on Dec 23, 2015, 11:11
Potentially contaminated Hanford equipment sent off site

This does not help our image...

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article50600355.html (http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article50600355.html)
Title: Re: Potentially contaminated Hanford equipment sent off site
Post by: tolstoy on Dec 28, 2015, 07:57
During my stay at Hanford as an Obama Baby I was repeatedly warned that PFP represented the fastest way to the biggest problems on the site. Might have been about right.
Title: Re: Potentially contaminated Hanford equipment sent off site
Post by: Bonds 25 on Dec 28, 2015, 10:15
Just once I would like to read an article where they give ACTUAL levels of an ACTUAL isotope using ACTUAL units.
Title: Re: Potentially contaminated Hanford equipment sent off site
Post by: tolstoy on Dec 28, 2015, 10:58
Quote from: Bonds 25 on Dec 28, 2015, 10:15
Just once I would like to read an article where they give ACTUAL levels of an ACTUAL isotope using ACTUAL units.

I've seen this periodically in Fukushima reporting on some of the pseudoscience blogs and it doesn't help: radiation levels climbed five-fold from 10 Becquerels to 50!
Title: Re: Potentially contaminated Hanford equipment sent off site
Post by: Bonds 25 on Dec 28, 2015, 11:38
It helps me adjust to the level of BS I'm reading. Most articles about Fukushima are so vague they make me want to vomit. 
Title: Re: Potentially contaminated Hanford equipment sent off site
Post by: Marlin on Dec 28, 2015, 12:09
Maybe we could promote the use of the BED (banana equivalent dose) to the press. 0.01 uSv or 15 bq per banana.  8)
Title: Re: Potentially contaminated Hanford equipment sent off site
Post by: Bonds 25 on Dec 28, 2015, 12:15
I like it
Title: Re: Potentially contaminated Hanford equipment sent off site
Post by: SloGlo on Dec 28, 2015, 12:56
Quote from: Marlin on Dec 28, 2015, 12:09
Maybe we could promote the use of the BED (banana equivalent dose) to the press. 0.01 uSv or 15 bq per banana.  8)
wile b.e.d.does have a certain bounce pronounced, aye yam thinking b.e.m. (banana equivalent man) wood bee moor inn line wit current technical units; eye eee r.e.m.