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Did you know that you are natu- ; my radioactive? Radiation is a 3mm] part of life. It has existed moe timebegan â€" after all, the sun . a nuclear reactor. Children sitting gm feet away from a color TV :ceive 1 unit per year. When coal is urned, the residue released into the :r, without scrubbers. is radioactive :id rain. Because earthen materials )ntain natural radiation, if you live i a brick or stone house you receive :ven millirem per year. The base- tent which is usually masonry will ‘ve a higher reading on the Geiger cooler than the attic which is wood rtd therefore nonuradioactive. Those ho smoke a pack of cigarettes a day )l‘ a year will receive 8,000 millirems tr radiation. These are just some of the points wade by Frank Finley. Head of the nformation Game at Atomic Energy f Canada Limited's Chalk River slant. at a workshop held in Perth on mm 10. This workshop on nuclear nergy and the disposal of nuclear «tea was organized by FWlO Board lirectors for the Eastern Region. Partidpents at the daylong session tot only heard the positive side of nuclear may but also put searching ruestioos to Mr. Finley. Some ladies were not convinced that nuclear energy was ll safe as the industry made out .flldumdllllhmepraemtomch the question fuliy and to read what the appetite had to say. Mr. Finley extolled the excellence of Canadian technology. Canada was the that country to develop a reactor that could change fuel while the power tennimon. Cancer therapy machines were developed in Canada (the 1m are now competing in this million! 65 per cent of radioactive Wanted for medicine com from Did you know that 3 oz. of for therapy costs $30,000? Food-imitdietion is being used by 7 l f Holland and the 11.8., W!“ ’ ,r‘ y felt it would be many 1 it was used in Canada. ' ‘ 'vrehIVeagood food 3m. however for motes, irradiation ~ giro-evaluable tool in Christine Reahurn stopping food spoilage. (1f potatocs and onions are irradiated it stops them from sprouting.) Irradiation is not suitable for milk. however. in Holland they irradiate the containers and find the milk keeps longer. In Ontario. nuclear energy supplies 36 per cent of our energy needs a every third light bulb is powered by nuclear energy. in comparison 97 per cent of energy needs in Quebec are supplied by water. La belle province has an abundance of water. however in Ontario the need for energy for outweighs what water power could provide. Mr. Finlcy's message was that we should put radiation into perspective and that all ventures in life have some form of risk. The afternoon session dealt with the disposal or nuclear waste and the technological spin-offs from [his research. Jo Hillier. Public Affairs Officer of Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment at Pinawa, Manitoba for the past eight years. has the job of promoting research on the Nuclear Waste Management Program through publications and films. Mrs. Hillier is concerned about the safe disposal of waste of all kinds. The study of nuclear waste dis- posal started in the 1950's before a commercial reactor was built. Cur rently storage of used fuel in the free world is in holding tanks or water, l2 feet deep. The Canadian Shield is be- ing carefully studied in conjunction with the Geological Society or Canada as a possible location for thc storage of nuclear waste. The concept would be to put the used fuel in con- tainers. and to put these containers one mile down in stable granilc for- mations. Each site would be able to store 50 years‘ waste and the latest computer predictions are that it would be 10,000 years before any- thing from the waste could reach the surface. If the underground concept Members learned new facts about atomic waste disposal works out. then (mic chemicals and arsenic could also be buried using the same technology. Nuclear oustc t< smaller in volume compuer to that of (mic chemicals. There are spinrol't‘s from .tll tho research. such as toois for the mining industry. Also being rcscnrchcd :tl Whiteslicll ix the cl’l‘ccl of irradiation on vitamins. Another .tid I'rom tr- rudiution is the sterilizing of medical equipment. One questionner “LIN concctttcd about the C\pt\,\'i1rt‘ of tudtntion o l' u miner in Elliott l ttkc. Mrs. liilltcr l‘clt ii l'ztrmcr itt Saskatchewan uliu lr.td potash under his hind would prohultlt gt‘l more rudidlion [hall .I llllllt‘l tn [illioil iith‘. Whether (iod tmidc or tll:lll-Ill.ltiL‘. radiation hats the Htll‘llt‘ cl'l'cct. so the industry is working to t‘lhlllt‘ that IlllCil‘Llf waste is not added to mttmul radiation. er. iillilt'i tnng the liltilL'N to orgutti/c workshop». u‘llillll their respective Lilfill’lt‘lh to tils‘t‘lm II‘IIongoing question of nuclear L‘llL‘lll}‘ :tnd ils wuslc disptmtl. Shc .tlxn sup, gcslcd lhcy Imu- ll spokesman from the unti-nuclcur lohhy so lilili u \rcllr huluncctl program ctm he presumed. (Wins/trip Rt'uhum I'x' pultlu' rt-lultmn olflt't'r uj limit-m (htlttrm xlrm Il’mm'rt'x Immult'. Ihm/ rm- prorr'rh'm of North It’t-ufrt‘u' District and month? n} Jl'mtrtrt‘ttr/t Hmm‘h. Workshop failed. . . L'UINIHHI’II from [tour -I There were two nit-nihch lrom subdivision 1. l'ltllll.‘ l'rom subdivision 2 and it better number from 1, 4 and 5. 50 in my opinion this workshop railed. This may not be your httsi. nose. but I don't know who else to write to and it does concern leader- ship. Ruth Fourney Glengarry Dislrlct PRU Editor's mile: a t‘UHl/Jh’lt‘ Import of the workshop appears on this [myth H dt (‘ illly. Aug. ‘St‘pl. I‘llili 7