[ RadSafe ] radioactivity in garbage

[Demetrios Okkalides]

I am looking for a quote of the maximum exposure rate (not activity) that 
hospital (or any) garbage can have on  its packaging surface in order to be 
permitted to be dumped in communal garbage sites. Can anyone help? I would 
appreciate a reference also.

thanks

D.Okkalides
THEAGENEION Anticancer Hospital
Thessaloniki
Greece






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Steinmann" <crsteinmann at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] body dose


Otto,

Is 4100 mrem per 3 months of smoking a fact?  How many cigarettes does
one have to smoke in 3 months?  If you have a source, I would be
interested in the citation.

Thanks

Chris

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Otto G. Raabe <ograabe at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> At 08:28 PM 2/24/2011, Mark S. Sasser wrote:
>
>> Routine bio assay Measurement Results
>> the results of the subject individual's routine urine measurement in 1987
>> are
>> consistent with those expectedfrom the previously evaluated intakes that
>> occured
>> in 1964 ,1966,1967.
>> in 1986 he was still showing 4100mrem(27% of the standard ). to his lung.
>>
>> my father now 84 years old and we do not know what we should do about 
>> what
>> is in
>> his lungs?
>
> ***********************
> Consider these facts:
>
> 4100 mrem is the dose of alpha radiation that just about everyone living 
> in
> Colorado gets every year from natural radon decay products in homes.
>
> 4100 mrem is the dose of alpha radiation that a cigarette smoker gets in
> three months from polonium-210.
>
> Neither of these exposures is likely to result in detrimental effects.
> People in Colorado have lower lung cancer rates than in most other States.
>
> Most people don't make it to 84 years of age.
>
> Otto
>
>
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