RE: SOURCE DESTROYED ACCIDENTALLy AT PARIS AIRPORT

["Ayers, Rex G" <Rex.Ayers@TycoHealthcare.com>]

Then you would need shielding. If the pipe was molded into the lead, then

your cost goes up and the cost of lead is higher for a larger safe. The cost

is even higher yet to add additional shielding to make a safe that would

allow removal of the pipe and caps. Any addition of lead adds to

manufacturing costs and freight costs which are huge for small heavy items.

 

Rex Ayers, CHP

Cyclotron Products Team Leader

Tyco Healthcare/Mallinckrodt



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Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 8:12 PM

To: grantjoh@pacbell.net; michael.vala@bms.com; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: SOURCE DESTROYED ACCIDENTALLy AT PARIS AIRPORT





In a message dated 08/29/2002 4:56:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

grantjoh@pacbell.net writes: 









Sounds like a 1 inch pipe and caps would do the job.  Cost, about $3. 

Is it government regulations that make $3 worth of pipe fittings 

prohibitively expensive?







Depending upon the number of these shipments per day, I imagine it could be

expensive, in that the cost will be passed on to the "end user," which

ultimately is a thyroid carcinoma patient.  Obviously, the containers would

be re-usable, assuming the hospitals and clinics dutifully returned them, so

it might just be a one-time outlay of money for a two - three day supply of

containers, assuming they are returned in a timely manner. 



One hundred millicuries of I-131 is actually on the low side of current

therapeutic doses for thyroid cancer metastates, as I understand things.  It

might be interesting to hear from the major radiopharmacies in the country

on how many 100 mCi or higher dosages of I-131 per day are shipped out of

any given major metropolitan pharmacy location, and what other

considerations would come into play if this suggestion were implemented. 



Barbara 



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