[ RadSafe ] Radsafe Posting - Alpha Creep References

[Tom O'Brien]

>Radsafers-
>
>We are looking for reference material on the phenomenon of the 
>spread of alpha contamination due to "alpha creep" as some of us HPs 
>know it.  We have checked the Radsafe Archives, our textbooks, and 
>web searched, but to no avail.  Anybody have any references or a 
>site that you can point us to?

>Thanks in advance.
>
>Tom O'Brien, CHP
>National Institutes of Standards and Technology
>Health Physics Group - MS 1733
>100 Bureau Drive, Building 235
>Gaithersburg, MD  20889