RE: Re[2]: MONITORING UNIVERSITY HEALTH

[Herrold@uwyo.edu (Jim F. Herrold)]

Sandy Perle wrote:

I will maintain my opinion based on observance of many law suits being 
brought for doses that are well below regulatory as well as "monitoring not 
required" thresholds.
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Sandy:

I'm curious. What kind of exposures are you accustomed to seeing on a 
regular basis? In the type of research conducted at UW (using millicurie 
amounts of P-32 or I-125) it is very rare if anyone's badge registers above 
10 mrem in a month. In the last ten years the most anyone has gotten in a 
year was 300 mrem. (We're talking about background levels here.) Under those 
circumstances I find it hard to believe anyone would even attempt a lawsuit, 
let alone have even a remote chance of being  successful.

If Sandy or anyone out there can site specific lawsuits which were the 
result of  low-level exposures I will give the information to our risk 
manager.

Jim Herrold, RSO
University of Wyoming
herrold@uwyo.edu