Recently, rare earth is hot topic in my country Malaysia. We are not concern about the technology application, or rare earth monopoly, or material price. What we concern is the harmful radiation from rare earth waste which dispose after extraction. In 2010, Australia base company, Lynas is building Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Gebeng, Malaysia. Now 95% completed.
Many questions from Malaysian citizen were post in LAMP facebook, they are not answer any. But some guy are helping Lynas to response the public question. Below is quoted from original fb's post (http://www.facebook.com/lynasmalaysia):
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Boonlee Ooi: @Nick Tsurikov, are you employed by Lynas? I guess you are Lynas' officer. Are you representing Lynas to answer the questions
Nick Tsurikov Dear Boonlee Ooi,
I am not employed by Lynas - I was their 'contract radiation safety officer' until about last October, but only for the Mount Weld site. Lynas is just one of about 20-25 different companies, governments, community organisations, etc I do 'consulting work' for - once in a while.
What I normally do is what IAEA team has done in Malaysia: come in, look at everything, take the documents home, analyse them and then produce the report - detailing what is good, what is not. This kind of thing... Doing quite a lot of this for the IAEA lately as well...
So, I most definitely do not represent Lynas in any way whatsoever - whatever I write is my personal opinions.
cheers, nick
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(source: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3389865183566&set=a.1151959317318.2023330.1177707225&type=3&theater)
Boonlee Ooi: @Nick, the photo in ur radiation meter, 1st and 2nd shows you measure at site, 3rd photo (Lynas) measure near by the two bags. Would quantity bag of rare earth affect the accuracy meter? What is the packing material, does it block the radiation? why not you take the photo at same condition? for compare apple to apple
Nick Tsurikov: Dear Boonlee Ooi,
You wrote: "...the photo in ur radiation meter, 1st and 2nd shows you measure at site, 3rd photo (Lynas) measure near by the two bags."
Thank you VERY MUCH for pointing this out.
l will be around the area where the Lynas mine site is some time next week (that is if I'll make it tomorrow back to Nairobi in a two seater plane from the local Aero Club :-) In my understaning (not too sure though) the concentrate is being packed into the bags as it is being produced, but I do hope that I'll be able to take a photo of the material NOT packed into the bags and from a closer distance.
Then I'll update the photo on the right and re-upload it.
cheers, nick
>>>>>>Below is the photo replaced by Nick, he admitted the previous photo is wrong reading value where the material is covered and from some distance. The gamma radiation reading is increased.
------------>To be continue in Part 2
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