Re: Decon of Toilets - I-131

[RONALD GOODWIN <RONALD_GOODWIN@health.ohio.gov>]

     This is a real reach, but has anyone considered strippable coatings 
     such as are used in NPPs for coating the refueling pools?  It is not 
     expensive, goes on in a flash (not a flush), and can be removed very 
     easily, stored for decay, and disposed of the the regular trash.  Not 
     very original I am sure, but maybe considered?
     
     Regards - and no one is responsible for this drivel but me.
     
     R.R.Goodwin
     Ronald_Goodwin@health.ohio.gov


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Subject: Decon of Toilets - I-131
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet
Date:    2/13/96 12:20 PM


This has cropped up as a common concern.  I just remembered that I dis- 
cussed the issue with a plumber here.  Our toilets flush very vigrously 
and it is not surprizing that I-131 laced urine gets underneath the lip 
where the porcelain is not sealed.  And as some have noted already it's 
a real pain trying to decon it.  Someone mentioned drapping plastic to 
the water level, I've tried that and it didn't work.  But next time I'm 
going to have a plumber adjust the flush to be much gentler.  This may, 
coupled with the plastic drap solve the problem.
     
Peter G. Vernig, VA Medical Center, Denver 
vernig.peter@denver.forum.va.gov
     
Any opinions are my own and not those of this facility the Department of 
Veterans Affairs or the U.S. Government.