European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago4 the stars a no stripes thursday May b. 1986 More radioactive rain expected in Northern . ,01 Rem dental a Ray. .03 Rem Chest a Ray. 0.14-.2 Rem average annual dose for Chicago area residents from environment and medical sources 0.5 Rem Federal exposure limit for pregnant workers in nuclear Industry. 0.3-.6 Rem Mammogram. 1 Rem spinal a Ray. 1-5 hem Public Protection needed if Nudera Accident is anticipated at this size. 5 Rem annual exposure limit for  workers. A Vishi Niton a additional arc is of the Northern United sinks should receive Small amounts of radioactive rain spawned by the chernobyl nuclear Acci Dent Federal officials say. The first ruin to Hil the United status from the soviet disaster fell in the Pacific Northwest in monday the Federal task Force following chernobyl developments said tuesday. The amount of radioactivity was too Small to trigger any recommendations for ii icon. Officials said. Environmental Prol Calion Agency administrator acc m. Thomas head of the Lask Force said we expect Over subsequent Days to see these readings Mure common across the  he said the Levels of the readings would depend on whether the rain Falls through air bearing radioactivity. Lester Machta director of the air resources Laboratory of the National oceanic and atmospheric administration was asked if radioactivity Levels could be expected to Rise and replied time will Tell. Well have to Walch Hal but he said he would not be surprised if concentrations Rose somewhat. Machii said he expected any radioactive rain la be North of 40 degrees North latitude about the latitude of Denver and Philadelphia. This level poses no danger to residents in the  the task Force statement said. The radiation dose loan individual drinking one liter of rain water about a quart Al this level would be less than i percent of the average annual background radiation dose and is comparable to less than half the radiation dose received from a single Chest  Ian Mcdonald director of the Public health service was asked if he would drink the water. It would really depend on How thirsty you arc he said. I would drink it. I would prefer not to drink  monday s Reading at Richland Wash was 500 Piccou pics per liter of Iodinc-131. But the actual concentration could have been anywhere Between 130 and 1.000 Piccou pics because of uncertainly in the measurement at port land ore., a Reading of 630 Picoc urics per liter of iodine 131 was recorded with no measurement uncertainty Given. Picoc urics Are a measurement of How fast atomic disintegration Are occurring about two disintegration per minute. The task Forte did not spell out the calculation but a can if be a Black hofe or a cosmic Spring and does if exist ? radiation exposure is. Health risk Rem Roentgen equivalent Man is Standard unit of Rad Tatton. Doses refer even exposure Over entire body. Authorities Are unable to estimate the radiation being released in soviet Union tragedy. 10 Rem 30-year fatal cancer rate increases by about 0.7% per million people exposed. Without exposure rate is 170,000 deaths 10-25 he Small Short Terni changes in Hood of the exposed. 25-50 Rem almost All victims show Tow White and red blood cell counts within 24 hours. 50-100 Rem nausea within 12 hours for 5% of the exposed. 100-200 Rem 50% will expert Era Ranung within 3hours of exposure 10% win lose hair within 5 to 10 Days. 300 400 Rem death within 60 Days for 50%.  500-000 Rem death within 60 Days for 90%. V i cd ago Tribune graphic sooner  Smy of pm Capo. American nut fear  ubors1flf1a�, Rensselar Tity Lochonic in Atsuta nude feb Suway fjvmij., Lilor of inc Richland water is about the equiv Lenl of .0009 reins of radioactivity. A Chest a Ray is about .03 rams. Sheldon Meyers head of radiation programs at the Epa said radioactive Rizin is generally diluted to one tent ii of its strength by the time it is absorbed by plants Caln by cows Ana transformed into milk. Food and drug administration guidelines say 15,000 Picoc urics of iodine 131 arc permissible in milk for Short periods half the radioactivity of Iodinc-131 disappears every 8.1 Days. In anticipation of folding radioactivity in the United states Meyers instructed the Agency s 69 radioactivity monitoring stations to Lake daily samples of rainfall if it Rains instead of he monthly samples previously scheduled. Meanwhile the Fra said its inspectors at us. Ports were taking samples of fresh fruits vegetables and Dairy products and fresh or Frozen fish from the soviet Union Austria Czechoslovakia Denmark East Germany Fin land Hungary Norway Poland Sweden and West Ger Many. No lest result from the Fra lab near Boston were immediately available but spokesman Dave Duarl said that if any samples exceeded guidelines for radioactivity the food would not be permitted to leave the docks. New. York a a super dense Black Hole or an object formed within a microsecond of the universe Are among explanations for a mysterious celestial form believed responsible for a cosmic optical illusion about 5 billion Light years from Earth. Whatever it is it has to be pretty exotic said j. Richard got associate professor of astrophysics at Princeton University. The object if it exists apparently contains about a thousand trillion limes the mass of the Sun or 1,000 to 10,000 limes the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy said Edwin l. Turner professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton. The object itself has not been seen but its presence is suggested by astronomical observations Turner said. It would be the most massive object known in the universe he said tuesday Turner and colleagues will report Evi Dence for the object s presence thursday in the British journal nature. It would be unprecedented in terms of the amount of mass concentrated in a relatively Small area said j. Craig Wheeler astronomy professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The mass would be similar to that contained in clusters of galaxies and yet we Don t see any Hars in this thing Wheeler said. One proposed explanation is that the object is a Black Hole a dark extremely dense concentration of matter with huge gravitational pull. It would have to be an immensely More massive Black Hole than any other astronomy would have led us to consider up to this Point Wheeler said. I have a feeling you d have trouble understanding How a Black Hole could form and be that massive. Another possibility is that it s a cosmic string which has never been observed said Gott strings Are postulated to have appeared in an Early fraction of a second after the big bang birth of the universe. They Are thought to be thinner than an atom but possibly Long enough to stretch across the known universe. We certainly have no definite evidence that that s what this is said Turner. It will take up i suspect at least a year or More to try to get a firm answer to the question of what it is. There s no guarantee Well Ever get it the Tipoff to the object s presence came in studies of an apparent pair of quasars Star like objects that can produce massive amounts of Light and other radiation about s billion Light years away. A Light year is the distance Light can travel in a year. Starlight is a mix of various wavelengths birth of a Black Hole surface matter radiation and heal Grant Tyr nuclear fuel surface matter 1during stable Era of a Star radiation heat and Gravity re main in balance. 2however,when Star exhausts its nuclear fuel it Bat gins to collapse losing its surface matter to space. O Gravity squashes Star s Core into a smaller space preventing any form of Energy from escaping. 4because of its tremendous Gravity a a acc Hole will suck an wandering space material into its Core. As it sinks into the Hole the material gives off Energy which can be detected. Or Scago Tribune graphic sauce so Educ reports of Light and can be split into wavelengths to get a distinctive profile sort of a celestial fingerprint for various stars. But when that was done for the Light from the two quasars the profiles were astonishingly similar. Turner said. The quasars May be twi but their Simi Larity suggests they Are instead a single quasar he said. A quasar could appear As two if Gravity from a massive object be tween it and Earth is acting like a Lens bending the quasar s Light so duplicate images arrive at Earth. The Angle Between the images is about one tenth As wide As the Moon appears. A half dozen so called gravitational lenses have already been reported but Ine effect of this one is far More than that of the strongest Lens known suggesting that the object is probably More than 400 limes As massive. Turner said