Re: Surviving a Dirty Bomb

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

Amen to all that, Ruth.



What info will health physicists at the scene give to exposed persons?

I would like to see HPs pass out slips with general info:

    "About 75 rem is what a cancer patient gets at each of many treatments"

and personal info lke,

    "Based on your being about  ___ feet from

about ___ rad/min

for ___ minutes

you seem to have received about ___ rem.



___  Forget It

___  Go home and rest. Give this to your doctor in the next 24 hours.

___  Go right to the Emergency Room"



Howard Long



RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote:



> In a message dated 6/11/2002 9:05:37 PM Mountain Daylight Time,

> smhp@BELLSOUTH.NET writes:

>

> << Chances are the on-scene responders

>  will provide some sort of shower facility.

>

> I doubt it.  Just go home and take the shower, and clean the bathroom.

>

>  Do not retrieve vehicles or personal effects that are near the blast

>  scene, especially if they are coated with visible dust from the blast.

>

> Maybe the community will provide hoses to wash vehicles off.  I don't think

> it makes much sense to advise people to abandon a $20,000 vehicle because of

> external contamination.  I don't think they would follow the advice either.

> I wouldn't.  I'd find a way to docontaminate.

>

>  The rest of the advice is pretty good.  I don't know that most doctors are

> going to know more than just application of the linear ceofficient 0.0005

> LCF/rem, if they know that.  They usually don't know how to calculate dose.

> What is needed for the long term is a rough assessmentof airborne and

> deposited activity, and some HP help in calculating average and collective

> dose.

>

> RuthF. Weiner, Ph. D.

> ruthweiner@aol.com

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