The nuclides in town: does danger lurk in low-level radioactivity in sewage?

From: Science News | Date: October 1, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

On a spring day in 1991, an airplane conducting an aerial investigation of a formerly contaminated site in Ohio for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) found the unexpected. Its instruments registered the presence of radioactivity at the Southerly Sewage Treatment Plant in Cleveland.

A subsequent NRC investigation of Southerly turned up potentially dangerous cobalt-60 in ash from incinerated sewer sludge, contaminating some of the treatment plant's sludge and ash.

Prior to the accidental discovery at Southerly, NRC had assumed that cobalt-60, in oxide form, dispersed ...

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