Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!howellg From: howellg@idec.stc.co.uk (Gareth Howell) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Russian Nuclear Accident Message-ID: <642@argon.idec.stc.co.uk> Date: Thu, 8-May-86 04:35:20 EDT Article-I.D.: argon.642 Posted: Thu May 8 04:35:20 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 11-May-86 04:00:44 EDT References: <228@scbhq.UUCP> <144@comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: howellg@idec.stc.co.uk (Gareth Howell) Organization: STC IDEC, Stevenage, UK Lines: 21 In article <144@comp.lancs.ac.uk> stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes: >In article <228@scbhq.UUCP> sdp@scbhq.UUCP writes: >>Europe, what is happening over there? I would greatly appreciate reading your >>first hand reports, and comments. > >being checked regularly, and it's been found safe so far. The background >reading in the atmosphere is 20% above normal, and falling. > I think you will find that figure was 20 *times* not 20%. However that is still very low. When it gets to 100 times, you start worrying. The head of the NRPB in the UK said that the figures were so low, and so subject to variation with respect to current safety levels that you could make a case that the radiation did you some good!! -- Gareth Howell STC Network Systems Limited | howellg%idec%tcom%ukc@mcvax.uucp UUCP Private Networks Business Centre | idec!howellg@seismo.CSS.GOV ARPA London Road, Stevenage, Herts | England, SG1 1YB | +44 (0)438 738294 |