[ RadSafe ] Hot particles on automobile air filters

[ZIC Joe -PICKERING]

Mike,

I guess it all depends on your definition of a "hot particle".  This could just mean that something above background was detected.  We define a hot particle as a radioactive particle with a contact dose rate of >100 mrem/h.  I can't imagine any hot particles, NORM, or TENORM in the public domain of Washington having dose rates of that magnitude?

Josip Zic   M.Sc, CHP
Health Physicist, Pickering A 
Ontario Power Generation


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Subject: [ RadSafe ] Hot particles on automobile air filters

I have received several calls and emails from people in Washington who
are alarmed about "hot particles" being found on automobile air filters.
The only source I found for this is a vague statement from Arnold
Gundersen in an article he gave to Aljazeera.  I admit that I do not
give to this source the same credence I would give to an article in a
peer reviewed journal.  

Has anyone seen anything else about this?  
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