Landfill Cleanup Resumes with Radiation Detector Now on Excavator Arm

Los Alamos Monitor had brief story today by Garrison Wells: Pipe with excess plutonium halts lab clean-up.  Now, the excavator arm will have a radiation detector on it to prevent any more breaches of the allowable above ground plutonium radiation permitted at the landfill cleanup.  Idea is that the radiation detector will measure the amount of radiation before the excavator drags the contaminant above ground.  Before, the radiation detector was placed on the ground next to the hole being excavated.  That meant that they didn't know the amount of radiation until the cat was already out of the bag, i.e., after they had already drug the contaminant above ground!  This is not rocket science.  Not sure if I feel any more comforted by the change in procedure.  I HOPE that some agency other than the lab is overseeing the safety of this cleanup.