On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:15 am, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:32:42AM -0500, Michael W . Lucas wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:11:12PM +0000, Wes Peters wrote: > > > The Bureau of Land Management (aka the Bureau of Livestock and > > > Mining) has slowly been cementing over the entrances of the mines > > > for years. People go in there and wander around, not realizing > > > they're getting a lifetime of radiation in a 2-hour visit and > > > inhaling concentrations of Radon that make doctors shudder in > > > horror. > > > > Aha! Now I know where to send my brother-in-law on holiday... > > Well.. the natural beauty of Utah is second to none IMHO.. > > "Do you want your children to glow in the dark? Move to Moab". > (the original says Windscale, UK. British Nuclear Fuels has a > plant there).
We have similar versions locally. One says "I work at Hanford, I glow in the dark". Another was similar to "In case of power failure, I glow in the dark", and etc. The truth was I got a higher exposure flying above 30K feet than I did at work. When I was going to school at the U of Utah, there was a coal fired plant across from the mobile home park that I lived in. I probably had a higher dose from it than any occupational exposure. Some people worked in areas with substantial backgrounds but I could only visit some of these areas. None of the ones I had access to had really high background readings. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
