Drinking Uranium? No worries!

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/09/10/loc_fernald10.html

Fernald releases uranium into river
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By Dan Klepal
The Cincinnati Enquirer

CROSBY TWP. - More than 2.2 million gallons of uranium-tainted rainwater was discharged into the Great Miami River from the Fernald nuclear clean-up site during three days last week, a report indicated.

The dirty water was blended with clean water before being dumped into the river, according to the report filed by Fluor Daniel, the company responsible for the Fernald cleanup. Still, the uranium levels were at least double, and sometimes triple, the amount allowable in drinking water, even after being blended.

The discharges are permitted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and thus allowable by law. The EPA does, however, limit to 10 the total number of discharges in one year. Fluor Daniel has used seven days so far this year.

The last discharge came in July, when 2.9 million gallons of rainwater tainted with uranium was discharged into the river from the nuclear cleanup site. The water carried levels of uranium nearly three times the amount allowable for safe drinking water.

Bill Hertel, manager of aquifer restoration at the cleanup site, said the water poses no health risks to humans.

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[treepig]

1. well, at least these people are being helped out . . .

considering efforts to extract uranium from seawater by the japanese, i suppose that after the requisite amount of time passes that it takes for this uranium to reach the ocean, and circulate over to japan, the designers of this facility



will be rewarded infinitesimally!

http://www.jaeri.go.jp/english/ff/ff43/topics.html