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Re: medical waste
Also 12 day Tl-202 from Tl-201 stress tests. A fraction of a percent, but
it still is there.
Dale
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>
To: "George J. Vargo" <vargo@physicist.net>; "John Jacobus"
<crispy_bird@yahoo.com>; "Shawn Hughes (Road)" <srh@esper.com>;
<radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 8:57 PM
Subject: RE: medical waste
> >Add I-123 to the list, as it can be contaminated by up to 10% I-124
>
> George - Is this still the case? I thought that production methods for
> I-123 had been mostly corrected to eliminate this. If the target and/or
> beam energy is changed (I forget the details here) I thought that I-124
> contamination would not occur, although I-125 contamination could. The
> latter is usually dosimetrically less important.
>
> Mike
>
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