Re: Slit Lamp Eye Exams

[Dwayne Gardner <rso@neca.com>]

As an exiNuke, I just don't recall ever seeing anyone performing these
surveys and until I got out of the Nav, I'd never heard of tritium...

At 08:11 AM 5/21/96 -0500, you wrote:
>        John,
>
>        OK, I'll stick my neck out here!  Why do you think that I, as an RSO
>at a Navy facility, or the Navy in general would ignore contamination or
>potential contamination of/by tritium (or any radioisotope)?   Did you hear
>a story from some ex-Navy nuc-er?  Do you have an ax to grind?
>
>        Inquiring minds want to know?
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>        Joel Baumbaugh (baumbaug@nosc.mil
>        NRaD
>        San Diego, CA
>
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>        STD disclaimer - I'm sitting at my desk at 5:45 A.M. so no one in
>the office is responsible for my comments but myself - the Navy included...
>
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>At 06:50 AM 5/21/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>Speaking of the Navy Nuclear Program... why are there never any surveys
>>performed for tritium? 
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>>At 03:19 PM 5/20/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>>The Navy Nuclear Power Program used to give slit lamp exams; I recall
>>>getting one in 1983.  It was an initial screening, no periodic or
>>>termination exams were done.  I do not belive it is part of the regular
>>>radiation physical as described in NAVMED P-5055 for non nuclear power
>>>radiation workers.  Perhaps some current Navy radsafers have more
>>>deatils.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>
>>>John Zummo, RSO
>>>Genentech, Inc.
>>>
>>>(415) 225-2959
>>>(415) 225-5008 (fax)
>>>
>>>zummo@gene.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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