Comments on: When will Alexander Litvinenko's house be cleaned up? http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2007/04/when-will-alexander-litvinenkos-house.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: A2 http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2007/04/when-will-alexander-litvinenkos-house.htm/comment-page-1#comment-395 A2 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:11:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=1112#comment-395 No, the neighbours are not in any danger, and while it depends how much contamination there was to start with, probably the cheapest option is to simply wait. The radioactivity drops by 84% a year, so unless there was many hundreds of times the danger level to start with, a few years ought to bring it down well below the level of an average smoke alarm.<br/><br/>The question is not whether there is any danger, but whether buyers can be persuaded that there isn't. That's a lot harder. No, the neighbours are not in any danger, and while it depends how much contamination there was to start with, probably the cheapest option is to simply wait. The radioactivity drops by 84% a year, so unless there was many hundreds of times the danger level to start with, a few years ought to bring it down well below the level of an average smoke alarm.

The question is not whether there is any danger, but whether buyers can be persuaded that there isn’t. That’s a lot harder.

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