Re: Request for Historical Info

[Bill Pitchford <wpitch4d@IMAP2.ASU.EDU>]

PERMISSIBLE DOSE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES OF IONIZING RADIATION

Bill Pitchford
Radiation Protection Facility
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-3501

On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 VERNIG.PETER@FORUM.VA.GOV wrote:

> CAn anybody tell me the Title of NBS Handbook 59?  It is referenced
> in a College of American Pathologists [CAP] checklist as a radiation
> safety reference.  Actually they call it NIST Handbook 59 but I am
> assuming NBS is what they mean.  [For non US participants the National
> Bureau of Standards (NBS) was renamed the National Institute of Stan-
> dards and Technology (NIST) 5 or 10 years ago]
>  
> This brings up another question.  Am I right in assuming that the 
> practice of publishing NCRP Reports as NBS handbooks was stopped
> a good while ago, like the mid 60s?  I would be interested in a
> little historical background.  
>  
> Please respond to me directly by sending a new message to me
> @ vernig.peter@forum.va.gov unless you're sure your email system
> will not also send to the whole Radsafe Group in a R-eply or A-nswer.
>  
> Thanks
> Peter G. Vernig, VA Medical Center, Denver, CO USA
>