Decades of lax screening, haphazard oversight and few rules in the United States and abroad have allowed low-level radioactive materials to slip into the recycled-metal pipeline and, from there, into ordinary goods.
As a result, consumers, manufacturers, the metal industry, the environment and public health are bearing a growing cost.
Here are some possible solutions:
-- Require all scrap yards, recycling facilities, mills and related operations to use radiation monitors to screen for contamination and train workers to look for identifiable characteristics of items with radioactive components.
-- Require those who detect radioactive materials to report to a state authority, which would itself be mandated to report to a federal agency.
-- Designate a single federal agency to be in charge of determining how much tainted material exists, and tracking what happens after the contamination is discovered and reported.
-- Set a maximum level of radiation contamination that will be allowed in recycled metal and goods made from it.
-- Provide incentives for scrap dealers and recyclers to report and turn in tainted material they encounter for proper disposal. Fine hospitals and companies that leave behind castoff devices containing radioactive elements when a factory or facility is closed or moved.
-- Ensure there are sufficient sites to dispose of radioactive devices at an affordable cost, particularly for small businesses.
-- Put more resources into the backlogged federal programs set up to collect contaminated devices, materials and goods.
E-mail Isaac Wolf at wolfi(at)shns.com.
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
Recycled Radiation
Everyone eats. drinks and breaths man-made radiation since 1945
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theroyprocess on 05/24/2009 at 10:18 PM
Letter to the Editor,
Albert Einstein once said, "Nuclear power
is one hell of a way to boil water".
That's right! It is the heat of making
plutonium 239 for atom bombs...that boils
the water and makes steam which turns
electric turbines.
Nuclear power fulfills many agendas. It
creates the BIG STICK of political might
and a grab for tax payers money. It creates
epidemics and birth defects world wide!
No one is immune.
Radiation, natural or man-made, will sicken
and kill everyone. It is invisible and illegal
under the Geneva Convention laws.
I remember a TV show titled "Traffic Court".
The Judge would say, 'you knew or should
have known' speeding is illegal...Guilty!
The DOE ,'knew or should have known'
nothing will contain nuclear waste and already
leaked into the ground waters at Hanford
in the first 63 years of the atomic age.
Everyone eats, drinks and breaths nuclear
waste everyday since 1945. We should not
add more to our body burden by using
this long-lasting lethal pollution.
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