Sewer Releases: Nuclear Medicine Patients

[Sue Dupre <DUPRE%PUCC.bitnet@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>]

A question for those of you with hospital experience (I have none):  do you
have estimates available concerning typical daily releases to the sewer from
patients who have gone through nuclear medicine procedures?  For instance, can
you say that on an average day xxx mCi of activity went into the sewer from
all of your patients?  If you don't know that, what kind of information is
available about sewer releases?

I ask because we are deep into the process of seeking approval from our own
management and our sewer authority for sewer disposal of certain liquids and
I anticipate that a question about medical releases may come up.  We're just
a straightforward educational institution w/o medical school or hospital but
information about medical releases may provide some useful perspective here.

Thanks in advance for any info you can provide.

Sue Dupre/Health Physicist/Princeton University