[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Savannah River Site (SC) worker clothing

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mystery of SRS worker clothing contamination solved


By Rob Pavey
Augusta Chornicle (GA)
September. 9, 2011

Savannah River National Laboratory has solved the mystery behind an  
unusual August incident in which contamination was detected on the  
clothing of two workers.

The employees, who had been checking serial numbers on sealed bottles  
of waste, triggered radiation alarms as they left their work area,  
according to a declassified report from the Defense Nuclear  
Facilities Safety Board.

The waste containers, from the Energy Department’s Hanford Site, were  
found to be intact and the material on the workers’ clothing –  
strontium-90 – was determined to have originated at SRS, not Hanford.

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For the entire article, see
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-09-09/mystery-srs- 
worker-clothing-contamination-solved

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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