RE: Handling DU

["Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

You might contact Randy Janke at Fernald -- email randy.janke@fernald.gov.
They handle a lot of uranium metal. 

Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
Sandia National Laboratories 
MS 0718, POB 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
rfweine@sandia.gov


-----Original Message-----
From: marvinturkanis@alum.mit.edu [mailto:marvinturkanis@alum.mit.edu]
Sent: December 23, 1999 4:04 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Handling DU


I am looking for experiences with and protocols for handling depleted
uranium in massive forms, such as trimmers bars when remanufacturing
teletherapy collimators. There is no machining. drilling, or chemical
treatments involved, only manual handling the bars.

The concern is uranium chemical toxicity not its radioactivity.
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