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RE: More on VDTs
Bill, somehow I doubt the answer is this simple. One point of my post is the
fact that a lot of these references date from the 1980s, and computer
technology has advanced greatly during that time. Note that smears on the
glass and plastic case generally indicate no detectable contamination.
Elizabeth Algutifan, CHP
Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC
East Tennessee Technology Park
Oak Ridge, TN
algutifane@bechteljacobs.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bill_goldsmith@urscorp.com [SMTP:bill_goldsmith@urscorp.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 10:48 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: More on VDTs
>
>
> Shouldn't I get four choices? Anyway, the answer is b) electrostatic
> attraction of radon daughters. The late Phil Perdue published a letter
> about this in Health Physics in the early 1980's. You can verify this
> through a number of experiments including looking at the alpha response
> using a ZnS probe, covering the VDTs in plastic and recounting them after
> a
> few hours' decay time, etc.
> Bill Goldsmith
> Radian Remediation Services
> 865.220.8265
> bill_goldsmith@urscorp.com
>
>
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