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May 29, 2014
AIR SAMPLING NEAR WIPP RETURNS TO BACKGROUND LEVELS
Results from aboveground air sampling stations in and around the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant property have returned to near background levels, according to data released Friday by the independent Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center. Samples analyzed from March 11 and March 21 “indicate that the trace amounts of radioactive particles that were ultimately released from the WIPP exhaust shaft following the event appear to have dispersed into the atmosphere and are detectable only in minute concentrations,” according to a CMERC release. “While the results for Americium (241Am) continue to be slightly elevated above previous background levels, the levels of Plutonium (239+240Pu and 238Pu) currently being measured are at or below historic background levels.”
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