AW: AW: [ RadSafe ] News article from Belgium: Worker Critical after highradiation dose

Michael McNaughton mcnaught at lanl.gov
Fri Apr 7 12:35:59 CDT 2006


Rainer

I expected the procedures to require the employee to use an ion chamber or 
Geiger counter that gives an immediate result.

mike

At 11:04 AM 04/07/2006, Rainer.Facius at dlr.de wrote:
>I have inspected another official source 
>(http://www.fanc.fgov.be/fr/communiques_2006-04-05_fleurus.htm) which 
>clearly mentions that personnel dosimeters of Stérigenics operating staff 
>have been checked with the result that none of them indicated unusual 
>exposures.
>So presumably he too was supposed to wear it also on that Saturday when he 
>interrupted his spare time to assist the on site staff. As far as the 
>accident has been elucidated till now that would not have made a big 
>difference.

Mike McNaughton
Los Alamos National Lab.
email: mcnaught at LANL.gov or mcnaughton at LANL.gov
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