14-06-2014, 03:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 14-06-2014, 03:25 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Hanford, Washington Site: Radioactive Levels Ten Times Lethal Limit At Cold War Nuclear Reservation
SHANNON DININNY 11/17/10 05:36 PM ET AP
This 4-year old news item doesn't cite the exact levels, nor standards. Most 'lethal limit' standards, however, are for exposures of a few minutes to about half an hour...and most persons working there (and all the animals) spend between 8 - 24 hours there per day. There are levels of radiation that can kill in a minute or less......but likely not at Hanford now...but this seems to be an only slightly less lethal level...and a 'radiation suit' would only provide some minor protection from Alpha particles, not from ANY gamma radiation, and only from a little of beta radiation. They pay well for those who work there..and they should...as they likely won't live long and their children will have birth defects...already many do!
SHANNON DININNY 11/17/10 05:36 PM ET AP
This 4-year old news item doesn't cite the exact levels, nor standards. Most 'lethal limit' standards, however, are for exposures of a few minutes to about half an hour...and most persons working there (and all the animals) spend between 8 - 24 hours there per day. There are levels of radiation that can kill in a minute or less......but likely not at Hanford now...but this seems to be an only slightly less lethal level...and a 'radiation suit' would only provide some minor protection from Alpha particles, not from ANY gamma radiation, and only from a little of beta radiation. They pay well for those who work there..and they should...as they likely won't live long and their children will have birth defects...already many do!
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