Re: Commercial Uses of Pm-147

[MVala@USCCMAIL.uscc.bms.com]

     Pm-147 is used in luminescent watched and other devices the same way
     tritium is, see 10 CFR 30.19 and 32.22.  Your spill may have been from
     a damaged luminescent device.

     Mike Vala
     mvala@usccmail.bms


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Subject: Commercial Uses of Pm-147
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet/X400
Date:    7/10/96 11:41 AM


     Fellow Radsafers,

     We recently have had a spill in a cold lab where the isotope was
     identified as pure Pm-147 (microcurie quantities).  This isotope is
     not part of our normal inventory, except as a minor constituent in
     fission products.  Does anyone know of commercial products that use
     this particular isotope?

     Lawrence Burke
     Health Physicist
     Argonne National Lab - West
     (208)-533-7078
     (208)-533-7344 Fax
     lawrence.burke@anl.gov