A question

[draggonlaady]

for funranium. I'm thinking that any danger posed to humans by a rabbit who drank contaminated water is minimal, but you'd know better--is this actually newsworthy, or just taking up space in the paper?

Radioactive rabbit trapped at Hanford

RICHLAND – A radioactive rabbit was trapped on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, but there is no sign any people were exposed to the animal.

Washington state Health Department workers with the Office of Radiation Protection have been searching for contaminated rabbit droppings. None has been found in areas accessible to the public, regional director Earl Fordham said Thursday.

Officials suspect the rabbit sipped some water left from the recent demolition of a Cold War-era building used in the production of nuclear weapons, the Tri-City Herald reported Friday.

Contaminated animals occasionally are found at the nuclear reservation, but more often they are in the center of Hanford, far from town.

The rabbit trapped at the 300 Area caught the Health Department’s attention because it was close enough to the site’s boundaries to potentially come in contact with people.

Comments

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

"Contaminated rabbit droppings". I can't decide whether the jokes write themselves or are unnecessary.

[funranium.livejournal.com]

Just noticed your post. My review, "Feh".

If it ate enough contaminated foodstuffs to be pooping hazardously, it is not likely to have survived to get out of the fence line.

Sure it is contamination, but hazardous not particularly. However, EPA regs are rather different that NRC and DOE's. EPA pretty much runs at "indistinguishable from background". To them, this is a problem.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Sorta what I thought. Thanks :)

[winnett.livejournal.com]

:( Oh my God. That's terrible.

For the rabbit.