SAN ONOFRE POWER PLANT HOME TO HIGH-ENERGY KITTENS.Byline: Associated Press Four black kittens born to a stray cat at San Onofre nuclear power plant are radioactive, but their levels of contamination are falling each day, plant officials said Thursday. Tests showed the 3-week-old kittens - named Alpha, Gamma, Beta and Neutron - carried radioactive cesium and cobalt, said Dwight Nunn, vice president of Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. Co., an owner of the plant. But the levels were relatively low and should decrease to below-detection levels within 70 days, he said. The kittens are being cared for by health physics specialists during the decontamination decontamination /de·con·tam·i·na·tion/ (de?kon-tam-i-na´shun) the freeing of a person or object of some contaminating substance, e.g., war gas, radioactive material, etc. de·con·tam·i·na·tion n. period, and they are being fed through an eyedropper eye·drop·per n. A dropper for administering liquid medicines, especially one for dispensing medications into the eye. . In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , their mother is nowhere to be found at the plant on the Pacific Coast, about 50 miles north of San Diego. A pest control worker found a black female cat on the grounds a day after the kittens were discovered by plant workers. The pest control worker wiped off the wet cat with an old pair of pants In mathematics, a pair of pants is a simple two-dimensional surface resembling a pair of pants. In hyperbolic geometry, pairs of pants are sewn together, leg to leg, or leg to waist, to create Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. , then released her. "We think that might have been the mother, but we're not absolutely sure," Nunn said. The worker's clothes were later found to have traces of cesium and cobalt, but below dangerous levels. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo Health physics technician Sharon Phillips holds four 3-week-old kittens found at San Onofre power plant with high levels of radiation. Associated Press |
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