RE: Uranium, Fire Safety, etc.

["Jim Darrough" <darrough@engr.orst.edu>]

Here's a great DOE website that speaks to pyrophoric metals, including

Uranium.



http://tis.eh.doe.gov/techstds/standard/hdbk1081/hbk1081c.html



Sincerely,

		Jim Darrough



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

From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of JPreisig@AOL.COM

Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 5:09 PM

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Uranium, Fire Safety, etc.





Hmmmmmm,



        This is from:   jpreisig@aol.com   .





        Hello Radsafe group-members.



        The thing I remember about Uranium is that it is pyrophoric.  Look

that

word up in your technical dictionary.



        Have a good weekend......





                                          J.R. Preisig, Ph.D.





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