RE: SSI, considers it a serious occurrence

[Jack_Earley@RL.GOV]

Must be my partial French heritage--I guess we out-type our thoughts sometimes. Thanks for catching that.

 

Jack Earley
Radiological Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Lantz [mailto:mlantz33@cybertrails.com]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:23 PM
To: Jack_Earley@rl.gov
Subject: Re: SSI, considers it a serious occurrence

Jack,

it should be 1E12.  In fact, the French are notorious for using 10E12.

Mike Lantz, CHP

Jack_Earley@RL.GOV wrote:

 Apparently meant to refer to a terabecquerel; should have been written 10E12 Bq. Jack Earley
Radiological Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: William G. Nabor [mailto:wgnabor@UCI.EDU]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:59 AM
To: RADSAFE@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: SSI, considers it a serious occurrence
 

Dear Radsafers:

Below is a snippet from a recent Radsafe posting on the Swedish transportation incident. My French is inadequate to the task of making sense out of the item in parenthesis:

(1 Tbq = 1012 Bq). Is this a complete error, or is the author confusing Bq with bytes and also leaving out a few zeros?

INSTITUT DE PROTECION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE

10/01/2002

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1. Description de l'incident

Ce colis, sous agrément britannique et américain, contenait 1000 billes d'iridium 192 produites par la société suédoise Studsvik d'une activité totale de 366 térabecquererels (1 TBq = 1012 Bq), destinées à un usage industriel de type radiographie.

 

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W. G. Nabor

Senior Health Physicist

University of CA, Irvine

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