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The US WIPP has been in operation since 1998. This incident has provoked a three week shutdown before probable cause can be determined. Where some waste needs a one hundred fifty year holding time before final disposition, this accident rate is not particularly encouraging in my view. As to alarming people with a spot count of 15cpm, I seem to recall that fifteen years ago, when a list member mentioned his record high count from a filter aspirator of several thousand cpm above background, nobody seemed particularly disturbed.
Brian Whatcott Altus OK