Re: Oops (Radiography Overexposure)

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: Mary Reynolds <Mary.Reynolds@wku.edu>

An: Janet Westbrook <janet.westbrook@HOME.COM>; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

<radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Montag, 08. Oktober 2001 17:07

Betreff: Re: Oops (Radiography Overexposure)





>Janet:

>

>I know that this famous picture/story was also covered in the April 1989

Issue

>of National Geographic, "Living With Radiation".  I do not have this issue,

>but perhaps someone out there in RADSAFE LAND has it (I'm unsure as to

whether

>it goes into the assumed recovery phase of the man).



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I checked the April 1989 issue of NG: The picture shown on pp 414/415 is

from a victim of the Goiania accident in Brazil 1987, caused by Cs-137

powder removed from an abandoned radiotherapy source and not the case

mentioned earlier.



I also remember that an issue of Health Physics, which I would regard as

older, showed the terrible effects of an overexposure from a radiography

source put into the pocket. I recently received a leaflet from the IAEA on

how to detect radiation damage, which also showed burns. The latter one I

could probably easily find after a little search.



Best regards,



Franz





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