Re: OSHA & Radiation (was: Badges for surgery)

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

In our case the clean cost amounted to extra overtime

for the staff, and removal of floor tiles.  Diposal

cost and monitoring were not itemized, and various

items, like shoes, were sequestered and allowed to

decay.  Luckily, and surprisingly, we had no personnel

comtamination.



A common that is often made as to how much will is

cost to decomtaminate the area affected by a

radiological bomb.  My feeling is "whatever it takes."

 Your experiences in Goiania prove that point.



--- Jose Julio Rozental <joseroze@netvision.net.il>

wrote:

> The total amount of Cs-137 in the Goiania accident

> was 93 grams (including

> matrix of source), and the quantity distributed

> among families was less than

> a grain of rice. The Waste generated in Goiania was

> more than 3,500 cubic

> meters in more than 6000 different kind of

> containers, and the clean up cost

> about US$15 Million.

> I also think this may have nothing to do with this

> link, but I felt like

> telling this story.

> 

> Jose Julio Rozental

> joseroze@netvision.net.il

> Israel

> 

> 

> 

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

> To: "HP Dean" <RadConDean@comcast.net>; "William V

> Lipton"

> <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM>; "Bradt, Clayton"

> <Clayton.Bradt@LABOR.STATE.NY.US>

> Cc: "Radsafe-Digest (E-mail)"

> <radsafe-digest@list.vanderbilt.edu>;

> <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 11:37 PM

> Subject: Re: OSHA & Radiation (was: Badges for

> surgery)

> 

> 

> > While cleaning up a P-32 spill in one of our

> research

> > buildings, a security guard asked, "How dangerous

> is

> > this stuff?"  I said, "It is okay as long as you

> don't

> > link the floor."

> >

> > This may have nothing to do with this link, but I

> felt

> > like telling this story.

> >

> > --- HP Dean <RadConDean@comcast.net> wrote:

> > > Been there and done that and still received a

> "no

> > > way will we enter the area

> > > in an emergency" no from a major city fire

> > > department and law enforcement

> > > agency.  The paint on the radioactive material

> signs

> > > would produced more of

> > > a health hazard than the stuff in side, if

> ingested.

> > >  They said, they would

> > > actually wait till we arrived and pulled the

> body

> > > out of the area, or such

> > > and such.

> > >

> > > Dean Chaney, CHP

> > >

> > > ----- Original Message -----

> > > From: "William V Lipton" <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM>

> > > To: "Bradt, Clayton"

> > > <Clayton.Bradt@LABOR.STATE.NY.US>

> > > Cc: "Radsafe-Digest (E-mail)"

> > > <radsafe-digest@list.vanderbilt.edu>;

> > > <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

> > > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:20 AM

> > > Subject: Re: OSHA & Radiation (was: Badges for

> > > surgery)

> > >

> > >

> > > > It's a good idea for a facility to provide

> > > training to local emergency

> > > response

> > > > organizations, or, as a minimum, give them a

> tour

> > > of the facility.

> > > >

> > > > The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

> > > > It's not about dose, it's about trust.

> > > > Curies forever.

> > > >

> > > > Bill Lipton

> > > > liptonw@dteenergy.com

> > > >

> > > >

> > . . .

> >

> > =====

> > +++++++++++++++++++

> > "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal

> hostility against every form

> of tyranny over the mind of man."

> > Thomas Jefferson

> >

> > -- John

> > John Jacobus, MS

> > Certified Health Physicist

> > e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com

> >

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Thomas Jefferson



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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