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It is outageous that there is no radiation monitor in the exhaust stack at this facility. One of these would have caught this problem with the first burn.
Having a radiation monitor at a community burn plant like this is reasonable and necessary for two reasons.
To detect when citizens are throwing away too many mildly radioactive items like smoke alarms. A campaign to encourage disposing them in the hazardous waste stream would follow.
To detect when businesses take short cuts with test equipment and etc that contain radioactive parts.
To detect when the military is inadvertantly throwing into the trash significantly radioactive items like this. This would have been especially prudent since HAFB handles nuclear munitions AND many other military components having nuclear parts or ingredients.
Again, it amazes me that the proper instrumentation at the burn plant was shortchanged like this.
The military uses depleted uranium for bullets that are now scattered all over the world.
The military does not think that they are issue so why is a micro scopic amount now a issue?
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