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To: John Walliker who wrote (67139)	3/5/2001 5:24:28 PM
From: multicollinearity	Respond to of 93625

John, Surely TMI pales compared to the Chernobyl incident, but it was still a very frightning experience. Officials claim that there was little airborne radiation and the favorable wind conditions minimized the risks. Also, to my knowledge there have not been any followup studies that have demonstrated elevated cancer rates. As I recall there were many heroic workers at Chernobyl who sacrificed their lives in an attempt to stabilize the situation. Multico

To: John Walliker who wrote (67139)	3/5/2001 5:37:23 PM
From: pompsander	Respond to of 93625

OTOT...three mile island. I have a fond memory of being at Epcot standing at what was then a technological marvel....a large plaza with television transmissions from all over the world visible at the same time. All of them it seemed, English, French, Russian, Japanese...and of course, U.S., were following the story. It was quite interesting to see the different levels of concern, fear and panic.

To: John Walliker who wrote (67139)	3/5/2001 8:38:14 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

john: The radiation protection physicists found that the main air conditioning system filters were sufficiently contaminated that they had to be treated as radioactive waste Since we were talking about radioactivity, I would like to relay to you one of the official policies of the Columbia University Dept of Radition Safety from about 1980 when I was there. When disposing of any quantity of radioactive liquids of isotopes of fairly short half lives, the proper disposal technique was to flush it down the drain with a large quantity of water. It was explained to me that by the time the radioactivity in the laboratory drains reached the Hudson River and level of radioactivity would be sufficently diluted to render it within NRC guidelines. LOL Needless to say I never tried to catch any fish from the Hudson River again. I hope this policy has changed since I was there because the amount of P32 used in molecular biology must be at least several orders of magnitude higher since I was there. john