RE: " Truck carrying radioactive material ignites on Hwy 10 " (ne ar Montreal)

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@AECL.CA>]

Title: RE: " Truck carrying radioactive material ignites on Hwy 10 " (near Montreal)

Maybe it was frozen (as in ice)  ........wiseguy ! :-)

 

Jaro 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) [mailto:jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov]
Sent: Friday August 02, 2002 12:48 PM
To: 'RadSafe'
Subject: RE: " Truck carrying radioactive material ignites on Hwy 10 " (ne ar Montreal)

I believe solutions are in liters, not kilograms.

-- John

John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD  20715-2024

E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)     

-----Original Message-----
From: Larson, Kaye M BAMC-Ft Sam Houston [mailto:Kaye.Larson@CEN.AMEDD.ARMY.MIL]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 12:27 PM
To: 'Franta, Jaroslav'; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: " Truck carrying radioactive material ignites on Hwy 10 " (ne ar Montreal)

For therapies, our iodine comes in pre-calibrated at either 5mCi/ml or 25mCi/ml... so could be 10 Ci or 50 Ci. But who knows.....

 

 

Kaye Larson

Brooke Army Medical Center

Fort Sam Houston, TX 

210 295-2411

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Franta, Jaroslav [mailto:frantaj@AECL.CA]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 10:27 AM
To: Radsafe (E-mail)
Subject: RE: " Truck carrying radioactive material ignites on Hwy 10 " (ne ar Montreal)

.....I noticed that gaffe about the size of the shipment too -- maybe it was 2 kg of solution containing << 1 Ci of I-131 ? ....what's a typical shipment size ?

Jaro
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