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Re: 2) Tritium fatality

Abel Gonzales mention two cases of fatalities in the paper  TIMELY ACTION - STRENGTHENING THE SAFETY OF RADIATION SOURCES

& THE SECURITY OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS: IAEA BULLETIN, 41/3/1999

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull413/article1.pdf 

Major Radiation Accidents (1945-99)

1961 Switzerland, exposure of three individuals up to 3 Gy leads to one fatality. 

1964 Germany, exposure of four individuals up to 10 Gy leads to one fatality. 

Those interested can write to IAEA Division of public information and ask for more details  official.mail@iaea.org

Jose Julio Rozental

joseroze@netvision.net.il

Israel





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Subject: RE: 2) Tritium fatality





> 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

> 

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

> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of Franz Schoenhofer

> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 12:41 AM

> To: John R Johnson; Dukelow, James S Jr; John Jacobus; Bernard L. Cohen; Carol Marcus

> Cc: jjcohen; Williamson, Matthew/Medical Physics; Radsafe

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

> 

> 

> 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

> 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

> Cc: jjcohen; Williamson, Matthew/Medical Physics; Radsafe

> Betreff: RE: AW: Missing Exit Signs

> 

> 

> 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.

> 

> ------------------------------------------

> 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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