RE: saftey of being in the proximity of someone on RAI therapy

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@yahoo.com>]

I would expect the states to make that determination. 

Certainly not the hospitals or the landfills.



--- Gerald Nicholls <Gerald.Nicholls@dep.state.nj.us>

wrote:



> John Jacobus crispy_bird@yahoo.com wrote:

> 

> "Maybe it is about time that the regulators consider

> the cost outweigh the risk, and consider allowing

> landfills to receive and dispose of short-lived

> radioactive waste from medical treatments."

> 

> I don't think there is a great deal of disagreement

> on that subject. 

> Most of the waste will wind up in the landfill

> anyway (possibly after

> being held for decay).  The problem is who

> determines that it is

> short-lived...the landfill operator or the hospital

> where the patient

> was treated?  My preference would be for the

> hospital where

> appropriately trained people deal with radioactivity

> on a day to day

> basis.  

> 

> Gerald Nicholls

> NJDEP 

> 





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com





	

		

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