[ RadSafe ] More radioactive debris turning up in garbage

[John Jacobus]

My point is that once it is identified as material
used for patient treatment, the waste should be
disposed as it poses no risk.  (Who eats trash.) 
There are spectrometers that do that kind of analysis
of the photon emissions.

What they should be looking for are large sources of
Cs-137 or Ir-192 from guages.

--- farbersa at optonline.net wrote:
> Whether patient waste is exempted or not by any
> regulatory framework  isn't the issue. Monitors will
> still be tripped by I-131 and other hospital related
> radioactive material showing up in patient waste,
> and a great deal of effort must be expended
> investingating what is the source of the trip.
> 
> Stewart Farber
> ===================
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thursday, April 28, 2005 8:56 am
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] More radioactive debris
> turning up in garbage
> 
> > Maybe the laws need to be changed so that patient
> > waste is exempted.  See
> >
>
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/part020-
> > 2003.html
> > 10 CFR 20.2003(b)Excreta from individuals
> undergoing
> > medical diagnosis or therapy with radioactive
> material
> > are not subject to the limitations contained in
> > paragraph (a) of this section.
> 
> 
> 

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Hugh Blair, 1783

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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