Re: Contaminated Scaffold Knuckles - Turkey Point

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

Interesting! Several years ago, I did a report for the DOE that included a

recommendation

to the effect that any material <1.0 nci/g could be considered de minimis,

i.e. essentially non-radioactive, regardless of the radionuclide(s)

involved.

I  tried to conceive a scenario (assuming Pu-239) where implementation of

this limit could result in significantly adverse health consequences, but

failed.  Can anyone suggest such a scenario?



----- Original Message -----

From: Bauman, Rodney (84U) <84u@BECHTELJACOBS.ORG>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:09 PM

Subject: RE: Contaminated Scaffold Knuckles - Turkey Point





> Dave et al,

>

> Regarding No.1 - Although there exists no possibility for these items to

> exceed 2 nCi/g, what is the lower limit for having to ship something as

> SCO-I with b/g surface contamination?  Is it 5 Kdpm/100 cm2 b/g or 2.2

> Kdpm/100 cm2 b/g or anything detectable?

>

> Heck, the upper limit for SCO-I is only 22 Kdpm/100 cm2 b/g.  I'm sure

that

> you could easily exceed that value without exceeding 2 nCi/g

(extrapolating

> over the weight of the knuckle).





************************************************************************

You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,

send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu  Put the text "unsubscribe

radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.