NORM: the new hot wastes. (naturally occurring radioactive materials)(includes related articles) (Cover Story)

Science News | October 26, 1991| | Copyright

Concerned about the threat of contamination from illegally dumped radiopharmaceuticals earlier this year, the managers of a Pennsylvania landfill increased the sensitivity of the radiation detector used to scan incoming wastes. To their surprise, the first shipment to set off the alarm contained nothing but concentrated brine sludge -- a mineral waste produced by oil and gas drilling. The sludge, which arrived in April, contained significant levels of two radium isotopes.

In July, a batch of paper mill wastes tripped the radiation alarm at a scrapmetal yard in ...

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