Re: Sewer Disposal: Nuclear Medicine Stu

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

>When I asked yesterday about releases to the sewer from patients undergoing
>nuclear medicine studies, I asked fully knowing that excreta from such
>patients
>is exempt from sewer disposal regulation.  However, I was assuming that a
>medical institution might have some knowledge, for the sake of simply
>knowing it,
>about how much its patients might release to the sewer.

>Knowing about activity in excreta seemed useful because we hoped to point
>out,
>if necessary, to anyone concerned about University releases that medical
>releases considerably overshadowed our own.

>Sue Dupre/Princeton University 

Sue,

Are you violating a cardinal principle of radiation protection: Don't
compare radioactivity or radiation from regulated applications with
unregulated sources, we would find that there is no benefit from the very
costly and program controls used to keep all that paper and data?
alternatively, if we document such sources the regulators will start looking
at controlling them too!

It's a tangled web... !

Regards,

Jim M