radioactive wood pellets

[BucksCoBernie]

no alarms in the states or canada but still interesting.

(broken link removed to http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/italylithuaniaenergyenvironmentnuclear)

ROME (AFP) – An Italian court has ordered the recall of 10,000 tonnes of wood fuel pellets imported from Lithuania over fears that they could have dangerous levels of radioactivity, newspapers reported on Sunday.

The alarm was raised after someone in the northern Aosta Valley region, who had bought the pellets, sent them for analysis because they did not burn well.

The results showed that they contained caesium 137, a highly toxic radioactive substance normally produced by a nuclear explosion or from the combustion of a nuclear reactor.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

That's what you call really hot stuff...

 

[madrone]

It's for those new multi-fuel stoves. wood/coal/nuclear

 

[Corey]

Lithuania is just a couple hundred miles north west of Chernobyl - maybe they got into some growth contaminated from the meltdown. You'd have to be a pretty hard core wood burner to send pellets out for a test just because they weren't burning well, even more bizarre to say, "oh, and scan for radioisotopes, too!"