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Re: hospital contamination incident
Still no venial sins in Bill's worldview. All mortal, every last one.
Original message:
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:00:24 -0500
From: William V Lipton <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM>
Subject: hospital contamination incident
Please note the attached hospital contamination incident from the NRC,
"Event Notification Report for December 26, 2002."
1. All of you hospital hp's out there should be aware of this incident,
and assess your vulnerability to a similar incident.
2. It seems that the NRC is focusing on one tree and ignoring the
forest. The real issue is not whether the nuclear medicine tech changed
her gloves before handling the package. The real issue is the
hospital's radiological controls, specifically: Why wasn't the box
surveyed before being presented for transportation? (If it was
surveyed, the survey was clearly less than adequate.) If the box was
shipped as radioactive "empty packaging," a survey was needed to assure
that it met the requirements for that shipping category. If the box was
shipped as nonhazardous, it should have been surveyed before being
released from the restricted area. If I were the RSO, I'd be concerned
about other contaminated items being released from the nuclear medicine
department.
3. This is how public trust is lost and why we end up being
overregulated. It's NOT a media conspiracy.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
Hospital |Event Number:
39471 |
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