Re: medical isotopes SR1556 APPENDIX U AND TABLE U.2

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I think you are mistaken.  You were injected with 16

mCi of Tc-99m.  A simple point-source calculation,

which is that is done in NUREG 1556 Vol. 9, determines

that the exposure rate is 0.4 mrem/h at 1 meter.



--- "Celia Rajkovich, RRPT" <celiar@andrew.cmu.edu>

wrote:

> It is stated as 150 mCi "or" 12 mrem/h @1M. I was in

> excess of 12mrem/h@1M 

> (16mCi)-they would not know that because they don't

> survey people before 

> they leave. They of course meaning the facility

> where I was, not a 

> reference made to all clinics.

> 

> 

. . .





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John Jacobus, MS

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