RENO, Nev. - Minuscule amounts of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plant have reached Las Vegas, but scientists say it poses no health risk. Extremely small amounts of the radioactive isotopes iodine-131 and xenon-133 reached a monitoring station by the city's Atomic Testing Museum this week, said Ted Hartwell, manager of the Desert Research Institute's Community Environmental Monitoring Program.
The result was a dramatic increase in the amount of radioactive contamination present in drinking water for nearby towns and in aquatic life and animals dependent on the river. Because Hanford's environmental monitoring program had not collected enough samples throughout its 40 years of operations to support a dose reconstruction effort, Battelle had to develop computer models to estimate the amounts of radiation released from the plants, how those releases were transported through the environment, and what foods were consumed by people in the exposure area and in what amounts. Despite the lessons of Hanford and these other locations, the Bush administration continues to press Congress to fund the development of a new "responsive infrastructure" to provide the United States with the c...
Northwest Engineering Service President Joseph Helm has been in the commissioning business for many years. He started providing the service before it was called commissioning, when it was merely an HVAC tune-up. Now, he expects demand for commissioning to continue to grow, particularly because of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. Proposed "LEED 2012" monitoring requirements would increase the importance of commissioning because LEED projects would need to meet projected performance goals to retain certification.
LEWISTON -- Federal funding will be used to stop the spread of invasive milfoil in two Oxford County water bodies, according to a speaker at Friday's annual Maine Milfoil Summit. Jackey Bailey, director and researcher with the Maine Milfoil Consortium, was one of three presenters at the conference held at the University of Southern Maine. The consortium includes St. Joseph's College, the Little Sebago Lake Association, the Maine Congress of Lakes Associations, the Lakes Environmental Association, and the Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program.
AUGUSTA Interns are being sought to help monitor water quality in Maine. Interns will work closely with Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program staff and volunteers as well as with state Department of Environmental Protection biologists.
A record number of mosquitoes tested positive for West Nile virus in Pennsylvania this year because of the early onset of high temperatures in the spring, coupled with a more vigilant monitoring program. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said 990 mosquito samples have tested positive for the virus in 2010, which is higher than the previous record of 954 positive mosquito samples discovered in 2003.
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