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We wish them well in their mission. But I doubt that wishes will provide them as much protection as they will need. Even if "the density of radioactive material in the air had fallen to about 10 percent the target level" there is still the danger of incidental exposure to some hot spot or other. The workers doing this job are incredibly brave and willing to sacrifice their lives for the good of their country. I doubt if many will survive another ten years. So it goes with nuclear power gone bad.

Oh, with regard to the Rad-Alert, we have it set for alarm about 20 times background but we hardly ever look at it. There was a period where we had a monitoring network around the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant where we had continuous printouts but no one is doing that any more. Dry cask storage is boring to monitor, unless someone crashes an airliner into the middle of it.

Charley Noble