Chris
section 9 of the proposal has a fixed price of $630,000 for the
final release survey (8 week effort)
bid shows the decontamination will be done in parallel with final
release survey :: "Therefore, only the incremental costs
associated with decontamination activities will apply." and they
documented the breakdown of T&M costs.?
The cleanup cost would be added to the $630,000 survey cost ;
would think it would push final cost? to $1M or more. Would need
the final billing to know. More than double the cost of done
today.
The dollar had an average inflation
rate of 2.38% per year between 1992 and today, producing a
cumulative price increase of 102.22%. (CPI Inflation Calculator)
mje
On 3/27/2022 5:52 AM, C.R. wrote:
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Wow, interesting stuff. ?Good job sleuthing it out. ?Sounds
like CWM Nuclear had some extensive decontamination experience.
?Since that proposal was from 1992, I wonder if it was completed
before later transactions of ownership(?) ?I would say
probably... since Victoreen "vacated" in 1994. ?I wonder how
much it cost to do that cleanup.? However, I did not spend a lot
of time looking for a price quote. ?
Interesting details (poorly OCR cut and pasted)
"contaminants of the Victoreen Project are Ni-63 (a very weak
beta emitter), Cl-36 (strong beta emitter), and Ra-226 (strong
gamma emitter). . A cost-effective approach to -Detection of the
Ra-226 and Cl-36 is clearly straightforward. However, surveys
and decontamination detection of such a weak emitter requires
sensitive instrumentation utilized by experienced personnel.
Clearly, the ORAU verification survey- A reputation with USNRC
for team is knowledgeable and experienced in working with such
low-energy accuracy, compliance, and isotopes and will be
especially comprehensive in ensuring residual safety
contamination has been removed."??
and...
"Victoreen vacated its Woodland Avenue space in 1994. The
property was transferred to Kordi, Inc., and then to the
Degeronimo family in 2000. It was foreclosed upon in April 2002
and then purchased by the Cathedral of Praise who began
renovations to the first floor of the building in June 2008. It
had temporary electrical service installed in April 2009, but
later in the year, Harper Industries was granted a demolition
contract to raze the Victoreen complex. The buildings caught
fire during the demolition process in September 2014 and the
project was abandoned.? As part of the Opportunity Corridor
project, the long-abandoned and partially-demolished Victoreen
Instrument factory was demolished in 2019."
-Chris
found a proposal
for "decontamination and decommissioning services at former
Victoreen Instrument building"
refers to:
"decontamination
activities associated with both the lowenergy emitting nuclide
(Ni-63) and high energy emitters (Ra 226, Cl-36) present at
the Victorcen Project"
mje
On 3/25/2022 7:00 PM, C.R. wrote:
It's a grassy field now.? The land is for sale.? Might be
able to walk around with a scintillator or sensitive enough
counter and look for elevated levels from various things
over the years. ?If I lived nearby, I would walk a perimeter
by property line boundaries to see if the cleanup missed
anything that got tossed out back.? Maybe even just over the
fence/off the property.??
Google maps:
Trashed location views before it got fully demolished: ?
I cannot find superfund cleanup records for it, but this
is the address if someone else wants to try: 10101 Woodland
Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44104
Attached is google map 3d rendered view of previous
partial ruins...
-Chris
Speaking of Corotron HV regulator tubes, these were made
by Victoreen, and maybe others, I don't know. When Victoreen
ceased production some time ago, the plant where they were
made was subject to a federal superfund type
environmental cleanup. Why? Because inside each Corotron
tube there is a wire element that is covered in Ni-63 a
radioactive element. The handling of Ni-63 had led to
contamination in and around the plant, evidently nothing
minor.
Right now I can't find the NRC report, but you and I (US
Taxpayers) paid the bill one way or another.
If anyone has a reference to the document or the short
article I wrote about it, please post it here.
Corotron gas filled? tubes (and there are other types, for
example Neutron Detectors) operate in the corona portion of
the Geiger/Proportional etc. discharge curve,?
Geo
