[ RadSafe ] Fukushima beta radiation burns

[McClung, Danny]

Good thing it wasn't VX.  

Hooah!

Dan
Danny K. McClung, BS, RRPT
Program Manager, MERRT
(Medical Emergency Radiological Response Team)
Veterans Health Administration, Office of Emergency Management

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Respirator and beard, or beard as 'respirator'?  Sounds like his beard
kept his contamination external despite the expectations of a
respirator.

On 3/28/2011 08:42, Strickert, Rick wrote:
> Excerpted from the Washington Post
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/radiation-levels-reach-new-highs-as
-conditions-worsen-for-workers/2011/03/27/AFsMLFiB_print.html -When he
was trying on the gas mask for the first time, he said, the supervisor
told him and other subcontractors, 'Listen carefully, I'm only going to
say this one time,' while explaining how to use it.
> 
> . He came up clean, except for the very tip of his beard. He was sent
into a shower where he lathered up and scrubbed his beard. He was tested
again and passed.
> 
>
> 
> Rick Strickert
> Austin, TX
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