Spouse begins half-time work schedule tomorrow. Usually I'm hiking with a group on Monday but tomorrow the group is going to Las Trampas and I'm not - too far to drive - so I'll hike with hubby.
Today: Went to MPL, then we drove to White Rock, parked at WRMPL and husband walked a little bit with me but then went back to library. I went all the way to Potrillo Canyon trailhead and back. Stopped at Smith's afterwards - bought frozen veggies on sale for 88 cents a bag!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
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.
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