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Hi Scott: I have a couple of employees who live near that site, west of 
Purvis, Ms. But no, I'm about 25 miles from there. This is USED oil well 
casing from the Jimmy Carter days. It's been down a bore hole. 

Any time you stick a pipe far enough in the ground it will pick up some 
radioactivity.  Which makes me wonder if the boffins are correct and our 
planet actually does have a nuclear reactor of sorts in the core. Recyclers 
won't touch stuff with even a trace of it, because that will contaminate 
their equipment. So it's VERY cheap. 

I use a Geiger counter to pick out low radioactivity drill stem at the 
salvage yard. If you aren't careful about that you can get stuff that's been 
down close to the drill bit and it's pretty hot. The public safety folks say 
it's safe for casual contact but I would not care for any. 

Let me add that the salvage yards also have plenty of large diameter Schedule 
80 pipe that can be used for grounding, light duty foldover towers, etc., 
etc. But it costs several times as much. 

73  Pete Allen  AC5E