RE: 2) Tritium fatality

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Dear All

Actually, to the best of my memory there were two technicians involved in this case. It was also published in a conference dealing with tritium. I don't have the reference at hand now but I'll try to locate it next week. Exposures estimation ranged 500 to 300 rem. At least one of them suffered aplstic anemia/ myelophtysis

 Dov Brickner MD

Beer-Sheva  Israel



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Subject: 1) Missing Exit Signs - 2) Tritium fatality







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Von: John R Johnson [mailto:idias@interchange.ubc.ca]

Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. März 2004 02:20

An: Franz Schoenhofer; Dukelow, James S Jr; John Jacobus; Bernard L.

Cohen; Carol Marcus

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Franz et al



I recommend the special issue of the HPJ, Vol. 65, No. 6, if you are

interested in tritium. We tried to put everything that was important into

it.

 _________________

John R Johnson, Ph.D.



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1) Yes, I have studied this issue with much interest, especially your and

R.L. Hills paper on "Metabolism and Dosimetry of Tritium", of which I still

have a photo copy. The references were excellent and exhaustive. My work

(tritium contamination of the body by wearing wrist watches with tritium

luminous dials) did not at all go so deep as to research metabolism, but I

got a fairly good idea about what might go on in the body.



2) I came across the literature, which mentioned a fatality. It was sent to

me by fax by Daniel J. Strom on March 2, 1999. It is from "Strahlentherapie"

("Radiation Therapy"), Vol. 137 (1969) and titled "Interne Kontamination mit

Tritium" ("Internal Contamination with Tritium") by Walter Minder from the

Swiss Health Authorities in Berne, Switzerland. Btw it is written in

excellent German.... On p 701 a case is reported, when a person worked for

three years with production of tritium containing luminous paint in an

environment, highly contaminated with tritium gas. This happened at a time

before radiation protection regulations allowed control of such facilities.

The person suffered health damage, which caused his death one year and three

months after he quit working there.



Best regards,



Franz







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