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@Peter Melzer I read something a while back where institutions were sending patients home very early when they used to keep them in the hospital. This was sending them out into public while they are still radioactive or shedding radiation. It seemed to be the same as other patients being sent home early, insurance companies don't want to pay for extra days in the hospital.

@Peter Melzer : normally these clinics have large wastewater tanks.

@Peter Melzer : i don't work with radionuklides, but still i have a decontamination room in the basement for wastewater and have to pay yearly fees. there are inspections every 5 years and you have to self-inspect it half-yearly.

Per Peter's suggestion this could be the hospital. If they had an isolated wastewater system in place and it needed replacing I could see someone deciding to stop using it quietly rather than replacing it.

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www.world-nuclear.org information article on nuclear medicine

@ Pedro.. I think you just came up with the waste song

en.wikipedia.org @ all.. During the first 40 years that nuclear waste was being created in the United States, no legislation was enacted to manage its disposal.

@ peter, I will say that in the very earliest days the knowledge base for waste handling was at it's infancy, the instrumentation to detect was less sensitive, in the day they either thought they would take care of it later or were ignormant as you say as to the affects

ah, now a full article


U.S., Japan to jointly study new technology to decontaminate large areas

TOKYO, July 24, Kyodo

The United States and Japan will work together in researching new technology to remove radioactive materials from large areas around the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a visiting senior U.S. official said Sunday.

As thousands of square kilometers require decontamination before evacuated people can return home, an ''extremely expensive'' task, research is needed to do so efficiently, effectively and economically, John Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology, said in an interview with Kyodo News.

Holdren, who visited the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant on Saturday, the highest U.S. official to have done so since the crisis erupted in March, said he discussed the matter as ''one of the areas of further cooperative research'' with Japanese officials during his visit to the country.
english.kyodonews.jp

@ Peter,,, arms race, biological warfare etc, government nuclear research and production added so much waste and the timeline schedule dictated just temp storage, wait until later mentality. I know from my career experience that back in the day there were requirements etc. and many thought they were doing the right things with burial sites etc. but they weren't so much on low, med hi waste, transuranics etc,,, liquid wastes... then after the end of the arms race and the facilities no longer needed.. they had a huge mess on their hands which exists today

Sunday news roundup done www.simplyinfo.org
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@lillymunster tweeted @Peter maybe plotting waste sites on a map would make it more 'real' for people . In fact all sites with radiation