Radiation rises from Milford Flat fire in Utah

This is the stuff MY FAMILY AND I ARE BREATHING!



By Judy Fahys
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated:07/12/2007 05:32:10 PM MDT

Posted: 5:35 PM- A puzzle has sprung from the flames of the Milford Flat fire: what's pumping radiation into the air?

The National Nuclear Security Administration said Thursday its radiation monitors in the area are showing gamma radiation spikes seven times higher than the normal background.

But before anyone runs to the doctor, it's worth pointing out that even those spikes, if someone breathed them for seven hours straight, produce less than one-2,000th of the radiation dose a Utahn normally gets in a year.

"You're talking about a very small dose," said NNSA spokesman Darwin Morgan.

The agency, which had proposed a massive, non-nuclear explosion experiment at the Nevada Test Site last year, monitors the air for radiation at 29 monitoring stations in Utah, California and Nevada. The agency canceled the so-called Divine Strake test after hearing from thousands of Utahns who complained that the explosion would send radiation-tainted debris into their air and onto their landscape.

"We heard loud and clear from the people of Utah they are concerned about radiation," said Morgan, explaining his agency's reasons for publicizing the radiation-meter findings.

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it freakin SUCKS.

Like, I have to take a Claitin a day now just to be able to function if I go outside :(

Damnit.

:hug: Stay indoors... it's all I can think of to tell you at the moment. Where are you relative to the fire? I used to live around 200 East 600 South.

air. It's not a pretty sight! :(