[ RadSafe ] Iodine Therapy rooms
FISHER Spencer -NUCLEAR
spencer.fisher at opg.com
Wed Jul 15 11:28:25 CDT 2009
In my previous job as a hospital RSO two approaches were taken. For the therapy room in the General Hospital, we covered the floor with Epoxy and it worked great. We asked the patient to bath at least twice a day, wash hands frequently and to sit while peeing. (picture of a monkey on a toilet with the caption - Men do like me, sit down when you pee.) The toilets were still a problem. As an interesting side note, one year during the Christmas holidays, when the hospital was very quiet, we had a therapy patient. Unknown to me, the water pressure increased, and when the person flushed, the flush was violent that contamination went everywhere.
At the adjoining cancer hospital, in addition to the epoxy floor, they used two toilets, which could be locked out. One was for contamination, one was normal. One problem at that site was that the waste stack was cast iron and the contamination gradually built up on the pipe.
Spencer M. Fisher
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Today's Topics:
1. Because the Compacts have worked so well... (Cary Renquist)
2. RE: New oral agents may prevent injuryafterradiationexposure
(Cary Renquist)
3. RESRAD (onsite) and RESRAD-OFFSITE Training Workshop --
September 21-24, 2009 (Yu, Charley)
4. " Thorium nuclear power " (Jaro)
5. RE: New oral agents may prevent injuryafterradiationexposure
(McCarty, Mike (DEQ))
6. Iodine Therapy Rooms (Poston Jr,Jay)
7. RE: Iodine Therapy Rooms (Brennan, Mike (DOH))
8. RE: Iodine Therapy Rooms (Michael, Joey L)
9. Decommissioning Training....... (Boing, Lawrence E.)
10. Study Estimates Radiation Dose, Cancer Risk From Coronary
Artery Calcium Screening (Cary Renquist)
11. RE: Iodine Therapy Rooms (Luke McCormick)
12. www.localnews8.com : Depleted uranium moratorium under
consideration (Roger Helbig)
13. FW: www.localnews8.com : Depleted uranium moratorium under
consideration (Roger Helbig)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:29:13 -0700
From: "Cary Renquist" <cary.renquist at ezag.com>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Because the Compacts have worked so well...
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No comment,
Cary
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709140813.htm
Experts Call For Local And Regional Control Of Sites For Radioactive Waste
ScienceDaily (July 11, 2009) - The withdrawal of Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste.
In an article in the July 10 issue of Science, University of Michigan geologist Rodney Ewing and Princeton University nuclear physicist Frank von Hippel argue that, although federal agencies should set standards and issue licenses for the approval of nuclear facilities, local communities and states should have the final approval on the siting of these facilities. The authors propose the development of multiple sites that would service the regions where nuclear reactors are located.
"The main goal . . . should be to provide the United States with multiple alternatives and substantial public involvement in an open siting and design process that requires acceptance by host communities and states," the authors write.
Ewing and von Hippel also analyze the reasons why Yucca Mountain, selected by Congress in 1987 as the only site to be investigated for long-term nuclear waste disposal, finally was shelved after more than three decades of often contentious debate. The reasons include the site's geology, management problems, important changes in the Environmental Protection Agency's standard, unreliable funding and the failure to involve local communities in the decision-making process.
Going forward, efforts should be directed at locating storage facilities in the nation's northeastern, southeastern, midwestern and western regions, and states within a given region should be responsible for developing solutions that suit their particular circumstances. Transportation of nuclear waste over long distances, which was a concern with the Yucca Mountain site, would be less of a problem because interim storage or geologic disposal sites could be located closer to reactors.
"This regional approach would be similar to the current approach in Europe, where spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste from about 150 reactors and reprocessing plants is to be moved to a number of geologic repositories in a variety of rock types," said Ewing, who is the Donald R. Peacor Collegiate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, and a professor in the departments of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences and Materials Science & Engineering.
Adapted from materials provided by University of Michigan, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:45:08 -0700
From: "Cary Renquist" <cary.renquist at ezag.com>
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] New oral agents may prevent
injuryafterradiationexposure
To: Franz Sch?nhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>, "Brennan, Mike
(DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>, <radsafe at radlab.nl>
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Franz, excellent proposal....
Since fruit is a good source of antioxidants, might as well combine 1) & 2) and add a little bamboo umbrella (Caribbean music is optional) I'm off to write-up a grant proposal...
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Cary Renquist
cary.renquist at ezag.com
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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Franz Schönhofer
Sent: Monday, 13 July 2009 13:49
To: 'Brennan, Mike (DOH)'; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] New oral agents may prevent injuryafterradiationexposure
Dear Mike and RADSAFErs,
My comment is in two parts, please be careful to read them separately....
1) I cannot judge anything from the release, because it does not give any details. The "antioxidants" seem to be very popular, you will find them in any pills for loosing weigh over antiaging forumlas - ok, now we find them as anti-dirty bomb formulas - regardless whether tritium, Co-60, Iridium, Tc-99m, Pu-239 or whatsoever available in a wide spectrum might be released. There have been many very reasonable scenarios on RADSAFE showing the very limited impact of dirty bombs on the population, which I full<y support and am convinced. It is an old method to frighten people to receive support for "research".
2) Many decades ago I remember that it was distributed on our massmedia, that ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH) was an excellent scavenger for free radicals. We joked then, that if it would not really help to remediate the radiation impact it would at least help to feel the "patient" better... Is this nasty?
Best regards,
Franz
Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
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A-1160 Wien/Vienna
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Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag von Brennan, Mike (DOH)
Gesendet: Montag, 13. Juli 2009 19:13
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: RE: [ RadSafe ] New oral agents may prevent injury afterradiationexposure
If they do a well designed and impartially run double-blind study, and it supports their claims, I will be impressed. Until then, I am skeptical.
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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of ROY HERREN
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 11:44 PM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: [ RadSafe ] New oral agents may prevent injury after radiationexposure
Public release date: 10-Jul-2009
Contact: Allison Rubin
allison.rubin at gmail.com
617-638-8490
Boston University Medical Center
New oral agents may prevent injury after radiation exposure
(Boston) - Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and collaborators have discovered and analyzed several new compounds, collectively called the ''EUK-400 series,'' which could someday be used to prevent radiation-induced injuries to kidneys, lungs, skin, intestinal tract and brains of radiological terrorism victims. The findings, which appear in the June issue of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, describe new agents which can be given orally in pill form, which would more expedient in an emergency situation. These agents are novel synthetic "antioxidants" that protect tissues against the kind of damage caused by agents such as "free radicals." Free radicals, and similar toxic byproducts formed in the body, are implicated in many different types of tissue injury, including those caused by radiation exposure. Often, this kind of injury occurs months to years after radiation exposure. The BUSM researchers and their colleagues are developing agents that prevent injury even when given after the radiation exposure. This paper describes a newer class of compounds, the ''EUK-400 series,'' that are designed to be given as a pill. According to the researchers, experiments described in their paper prove that these agents are orally active. They also show that the new agents have several desirable "antioxidant" activities, and protect cells in a "cell death" model.
These same BUSM researchers and collaborators had previously discovered novel synthetic antioxidants that effectively mitigate radiation injuries, but had to be given by injection. "We have developed some of these agents and have studied them for over 15 years beginning with our work at the local biotechnology company Eukarion," said senior author Susan Doctrow, PhD, a research associate professor of medicine at BUSM's Pulmonary Center. "These injectible antioxidants are very effective, but there has also been a desire to have agents that can be given orally. A pill would be more feasible than an injection to treat large numbers of people in an emergency scenario," she adds. Future studies will focus on the EUK-400 compounds' effects in various experimental models for radiation injury. Data showing their benefits in models for radiation injury in blood vessel cells have been presented at two major scientific conferences and will be the topic of future publication. More broadly, beyond the potential for treating victims of radiological terrorism, these compounds could also be useful drugs against a variety of diseases where an effective antioxidant has potential benefits, for example, various neurological, pulmonary, cardiovascular, and autoimmune disorders. Previously, Doctrow's lab and others have published studies showing that the injectible versions of these compounds are beneficial in models for several such diseases. ### Funding for this study was provided by the U.S. Centers for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiation (CMCR) program, administered by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The study was initiated with CMCR "Pilot Grant" funding awarded to Dr. Rosalind Rosenthal, first author of the paper and currently a research associate at BUSM. Doctrow's laboratory at BUSM is a member of a five-institution CMCR program, based at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:23:17 -0500
From: "Yu, Charley" <cyu at anl.gov>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] RESRAD (onsite) and RESRAD-OFFSITE Training
Workshop -- September 21-24, 2009
To: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
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Argonne National Laboratory will conduct a training workshop on the use of RESRAD (onsite) and RESRAD-OFFSITE risk assessment codes on September 21-24, 2009. This workshop will include a RESRAD (onsite) refresher and a full-length RESRAD-OFFSITE training course. The latest version of RESRAD codes will be used. The tentative agenda of this workshop can be found on the RESRAD Web site -- http://web.ead.anl.gov/resrad/training/Agenda_9_21_09.htm. Space is limited. For registration, please go online at http://web.ead.anl.gov/resrad/training/ or send email to: RESRAD at anl.gov. This workshop is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Charley Yu, PhD, CHP
RESRAD Program Manager
Environmental Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory http://web.ead.anl.gov/resrad/home2/
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:09:20 -0400
From: "Jaro" <jaro-10kbq at sympatico.ca>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] " Thorium nuclear power "
To: "multiple cdn" <cdn-nucl-l at mailman.mcmaster.ca>, "RADSAFE"
<radsafe at radlab.nl>
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from The Manchester Report:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/manchester-report-nuclear
Thorium nuclear power
13 Jul 2009:
Switching from uranium to thorium as our primarily nuclear fuel could lead to cheaper, safer and more sustainable nuclear power
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" Make your vote count in the battle against global warming " http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/poll/2009/jul/08/manchester-report-pol
l
( currently, 20.9% voted for "Thorium nuclear reactors", 35.6% for
"Concentrated solar power in the world's deserts" )
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See also: http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/2009/07/lftr-and-manchester-report.html
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:49:12 -0400
From: "McCarty, Mike (DEQ)" <MCCARTYM1 at michigan.gov>
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] New oral agents may prevent
injuryafterradiationexposure
To: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
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This serves to remind me of a fictional character in "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute, published in 1957. He spent the post World War III period consuming a wine cellar (lest the fine wines go unappreciated) and bemoaning that if ethanol really did counteract radiation sickness there would be no one left alive with him to take note of the fact.
Here's to your health.
Mike McCarty
MI Department of Environmental Quality
Radiological Protection Section
Radiological Laboratory
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2) Many decades ago I remember that it was distributed on our massmedia, that ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH) was an excellent scavenger for free radicals. We joked then, that if it would not really help to remediate the radiation impact it would at least help to feel the "patient" better... Is this nasty?
Best regards,
Franz
Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Wien/Vienna
AUSTRIA
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:29:00 -0500
From: "Poston Jr,Jay" <jposton at mdanderson.org>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Iodine Therapy Rooms
To: "radsafe at radlab.nl" <radsafe at radlab.nl>
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We are looking to change our process for preparing our iodine therapy rooms. Right now we paper the floor and the bath room with "butcher paper" and incontinent pads. We cover just about everything else with plastic or incontinent pads, also. Recently some concerns have been raised about a tripping hazard existing due to the papered floors. Nuclear Medicine and Nursing wants to stop papering the floors, but of course they aren't the ones performing the decontamination and this won't increase their work. Any other suggestions out there on a better approach to protecting the floors?
The room floor is linoleum and the bathroom floor is grouted tiles, so we are also looking to remove the old flooring and to cover them with some kind of epoxy flooring with rounded corners and coping. Anyone have any success (or bad experiences) with such an approach?
Finally, the thought came up to change out the ceramic sink and toilet with stainless steel. Anyone have any success (or bad experiences) with such an approach?
Thanks,
Jay Poston
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:34:57 -0700
From: "Brennan, Mike (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Iodine Therapy Rooms
To: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
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Have you thought about putting the patient in tivec anti-Cs for at least the first couple of days? I know the toilet and sink would still be an issue, but that is easier than dealing with the whole room. Figure out what the current method costs, plus a reasonable amount to cover decon when your current method fails to stop all contamination (as I suspect it does occasionally), and offer half of that as a discount off of the patient's deductable if they go with the anti-C option.
Another thought is to make the therapy rooms with an impermeable floor, sloped to lead to a floor drain (or more than one), seamless connections to the walls, and everything in the room waterproof (using an inflatable mattress on the bed should cover that). Then just hose the whole place down after each patient. Iodine is pretty soluble, and it can be disposed of to the sewer (the best disposal option, in my opinion). If the room is designed for it, it should be quick, easy, and effective.
Hey, they're just ideas. I charge for the really good ones.
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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Poston Jr,Jay
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:29 PM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Iodine Therapy Rooms
We are looking to change our process for preparing our iodine therapy rooms. Right now we paper the floor and the bath room with "butcher paper" and incontinent pads. We cover just about everything else with plastic or incontinent pads, also. Recently some concerns have been raised about a tripping hazard existing due to the papered floors. Nuclear Medicine and Nursing wants to stop papering the floors, but of course they aren't the ones performing the decontamination and this won't increase their work. Any other suggestions out there on a better approach to protecting the floors?
The room floor is linoleum and the bathroom floor is grouted tiles, so we are also looking to remove the old flooring and to cover them with some kind of epoxy flooring with rounded corners and coping. Anyone have any success (or bad experiences) with such an approach?
Finally, the thought came up to change out the ceramic sink and toilet with stainless steel. Anyone have any success (or bad experiences) with such an approach?
Thanks,
Jay Poston
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:41:45 -0500
From: "Michael, Joey L" <joey-michael at uiowa.edu>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] RE: Iodine Therapy Rooms
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We use Chux pads (incontinent pads). Tape them around all edges and they shouldn't be a tripping hazard. We still have porcelain sinks and toilets. They seem to absorb the iodine and release some of it, so stainless may be better. Maybe your risk management people need to be involved. I would let nursing and nuclear medicine know that if you don't cover the floor, the room may be down for several days. The hospital risks losing revenue due to an empty un-billable room vs. the chance that someone could trip. We've never had anyone trip as far as I know. We did have a problem years ago before we used a lead lined room. To achieve an exposure rate of <2 mR/hr in the hall, the bed was moved. This caused problems because of all the other medical equipment in the room - so I would advise against doing that.
Maybe there is some kind of rubber mat that could be unrolled to cover the floor and removed after the therapy for decay in storage. You would need several, it would be hard/awkward to manipulate and take up space.
I guess the other option would be to put the patient in something like a level A hazmat suit so that everything stays contained , but that would cause other problems.
I'm curious to see other responses on this as well.
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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Poston Jr,Jay
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2:29 PM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Iodine Therapy Rooms
We are looking to change our process for preparing our iodine therapy rooms. Right now we paper the floor and the bath room with "butcher paper" and incontinent pads. We cover just about everything else with plastic or incontinent pads, also. Recently some concerns have been raised about a tripping hazard existing due to the papered floors. Nuclear Medicine and Nursing wants to stop papering the floors, but of course they aren't the ones performing the decontamination and this won't increase their work. Any other suggestions out there on a better approach to protecting the floors?
The room floor is linoleum and the bathroom floor is grouted tiles, so we are also looking to remove the old flooring and to cover them with some kind of epoxy flooring with rounded corners and coping. Anyone have any success (or bad experiences) with such an approach?
Finally, the thought came up to change out the ceramic sink and toilet with stainless steel. Anyone have any success (or bad experiences) with such an approach?
Thanks,
Jay Poston
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:01:02 -0500
From: "Boing, Lawrence E." <lboing at anl.gov>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Decommissioning Training.......
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Radsafers -
Argonne National Laboratory will conduct sessions of its popular Decommissioning Training Course - in October in Virginia Beach, VA and in November in Las Vegas, NV. Space is limited; sessions fill up fast. Both sessions are open registration sessions. For registration and full details, please go to our website www.dd.anl.gov/ddtraining/.
Larry Boing
Argonne National Laboratory
lboing at anl.gov
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:22:48 -0700
From: "Cary Renquist" <cary.renquist at ezag.com>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Study Estimates Radiation Dose, Cancer Risk From
Coronary Artery Calcium Screening
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Speculation upon speculation of an estimation...
These studies have the appearance of being significant (especially as presented by the general media), but in reality they are just estimating noise.
I would be more interested in seeing the risk of acquiring an antibiotic-resistant bacteria infection from repeated visits to an imaging clinic -- I would guess that it is quite low, but probably much higher than 0.05%.
My own speculation upon speculation of an estimation: Implementing the miles exposure theory of automobile liability, if an average round trip to the imaging clinic is 20 miles, then one could expect an excess accident incidence of 72.8 per 100,000 males for the given visit schedule of every 5 years from the age of 45 to 75 (using the average incident rate for males of 5.2 per million car miles, i.e. not accounting for the increase of the rate with age).
FYI:
Using their median numbers for males, I get 65 per 100,000 using
www.xrayrisk.com : <http://www.xrayrisk.com/calculator/calculator.php>
I also notice that the article doesn't compare the estimated additional risk to the overall lifetime risk estimates... i.e. ~45,000 cases of invasive cancer out of 100,000 for men.
Cary
Study Estimates Radiation Dose, Cancer Risk From Coronary Artery Calcium Screening http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/157426.php
A study based on computer modeling of radiation risk suggests that widespread screening for the buildup of calcium in the arteries using computed tomography scans would lead to an estimated 42 additional radiation-induced cancer cases per 100,000 men and 62 cases per 100,000 women, according to a report in the July 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. .... "Assuming screening every five years from the age of 45 to 75 years for men and 55 to 75 years for women, the estimated excess lifetime cancer risk using the median dose of 2.3 millisieverts was 42 cases per 100,000 men (range, 14 to 200 cases) and 62 cases per 100,000 women (range, 21 to 300 cases)." .... There are currently no estimates of the benefits of CT screening for coronary artery calcification, but when they become available, they could be compared with these estimates of radiation-induced cancer risk to design appropriate detection and prevention strategies.
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:37:31 -0500
From: Luke McCormick <mccormickl at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Iodine Therapy Rooms
To: <jposton at mdanderson.org>, "radsafe at radlab.nl" <radsafe at radlab.nl>
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A company called New Pig offers a spill protecting type of carpeting that comes in 4 or 6' rolls. We used this, then let it decon in storage and reused it. Cheap and the patient thought they had a carpetted room. You still have to do the john yourself though.
Luke McCormick
> From: jposton at mdanderson.org
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:29:00 -0500
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Iodine Therapy Rooms
>
> We are looking to change our process for preparing our iodine therapy
> rooms. Right now we paper the floor and the bath room with "butcher
> paper" and incontinent pads. We cover just about everything else with
> plastic or incontinent pads, also. Recently some concerns have been
> raised about a tripping hazard existing due to the papered floors.
> Nuclear Medicine and Nursing wants to stop papering the floors, but of
> course they aren't the ones performing the decontamination and this
> won't increase their work. Any other suggestions out there on a better
> approach to protecting the floors?
>
> The room floor is linoleum and the bathroom floor is grouted tiles, so
> we are also looking to remove the old flooring and to cover them with
> some kind of epoxy flooring with rounded corners and coping. Anyone
> have any success (or bad experiences) with such an approach?
>
> Finally, the thought came up to change out the ceramic sink and toilet
> with stainless steel. Anyone have any success (or bad experiences)
> with such an approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay Poston
>
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:30 -0700
From: "Roger Helbig" <rhelbig at sfo.com>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] www.localnews8.com : Depleted uranium moratorium
under consideration
To: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
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Carl Lundgren (cllundgren at earthlink.net <http://us.mc1113.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=cllundgren@earthlink.net> ) has sent you an item from http://www.localnews8.com <http://www.localnews8.com/> . Depleted uranium moratorium under consideration
Associated Press - July 13, 2009 7:05 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An environmental group will make its case Tuesday for placing a moratorium on the disposal of depleted uranium in Utah.
http://www.localnews8.com/global/story.asp?s=10714736
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From: "Roger Helbig" <rhelbig at sfo.com>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] FW: www.localnews8.com : Depleted uranium
moratorium under consideration
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The Associated Press and Utah media need to understand that this entire manufactured controversy is an anti-nuclear ploy where the critics have been deliberately misusing the underlying science. <http://www.localnews8.com/>
Carl Lundgren (cllundgren at earthlink.net <http://us.mc1113.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=cllundgren@earthlink.net> ) has sent you an item from http://www.localnews8.com <http://www.localnews8.com/> . Depleted uranium moratorium under consideration
Associated Press - July 13, 2009 7:05 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An environmental group will make its case Tuesday for placing a moratorium on the disposal of depleted uranium in Utah.
http://www.localnews8.com/global/story.asp?s=10714736
Find more items like this at http://www.localnews8.com <http://www.localnews8.com/>
Copyright 2009 KIFI
Associated Press
Moratorium sought in Utah on depleted uranium
Associated Press, 07.13.09, 01:49 PM EDT
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SALT LAKE CITY -- An environmental group will make its case Tuesday for a moratorium on the disposal of depleted uranium in Utah.
The radioactive waste watchdog group Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah will tell the state's radiation control board that no more depleted uranium should come into the state until the Nuclear Regulatory Commission finishes studying whether its current rules are adequate.
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Meanwhile, EnergySolutions Inc. will tell the board why it believes it can safely dispose of the material at its facility about 70 miles west of Salt Lake City.
Depleted uranium is unique from other low-level radioactive waste because it becomes more radioactive over time. The NRC has said developing new rules for disposing the material could take years.
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