Re: Fume Hood Decontamination

[John DeLaHunt <jdelahunt@cc.colorado.edu>]

>Your survey protocol should be dictated by the type of nuclide
>contamination expected.  If there is no way to determine the nature
>of nuclides used in the hood I would plan to survey for gamma, beta,
>and alpha emitters.  You will also probably want to determine both
>fixed and removable contamination.

The hoods in question are new (< 6 years old) and have seen
tritium and C-14 use only, as sodium borotritide and sodium
carbon(14)ate.  Therefore, I anticipate much of the
radiation to be "removable".

Two more questions:

What is a good catalog/handbook of radiation survey
equipment?

And,

What is Tuballoy?  (A steely silver metal)

Thanks for all the input.

John
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