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Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 9:17
AM
Subject: RE: Radiation-Proof
Uniform?
John:
No. He
immediately said that the attenuation for Co-60 gammas or from cosmic rays was
"effectively zero." But he claims that better things are to come and is
sending me info.
We'll
see.
TR
Ted,
Did
they give any indication of the shielding equivalence, as in equivalent mm of
Pb? Recently, I have had to deal with surgical gloves made with tungsten
or barium being marketed to doctors doing interventional and pediatric
surgery. The only advantage was that they could be disposed of as
non-hazardous waste. The down side was they were about $10/pair.
By the way, one vendor admitted that they were not designed to be used in
the primary beam.
-- John
John P.
Jacobus, MS
Certified Health
Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
e-mail: jenday1@msn.com
-----Original
Message-----
From: Ted Rockwell
[mailto:tedrock@CPCUG.ORG]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:59
PM
To: BLHamrick@AOL.COM;
radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: Radiation-Proof
Uniform?
Friends:
I've checked out
their website and talked with one of their people. They are sending me
some info. They concede that their current product has little effect
on high-energy gammas, such as from Co-60, and even less on cosmic rays.
But they claim that they will be able to develop a product that will be
effective for such sources and are working on it.
I am highly
skeptical, but will get back to you after I've read their material and
talked with their technical director, Joe Kucherovski.
Ted
Rockwell
In a message dated 11/14/2002 1:16:28 PM
Pacific Standard Time, harttp@raso.navy.mil writes:
September 12, 2002 - Radiation Shield Technologies announces
Demron, the
first ionizing/nuclear radiation blocking
fabric.
Okay, I must know, who's going to buy one of
these and irradiate it and make measurements on the other side?
Please, someone must do this. This would be hilarious.
Barbara