Re: P-32 and Skin Burns

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@ix.netcom.com>]

Don Haes stated:

> The ingestion ALI for P-32 is 600 uCi.  
> IF someone were to ingest something just shy of that, say, 597 uCi, a
> physician would observe NO adverse effects, although this is a significant
> ingestion.
> 
> See NUREG-1535.


Thanks to Don for providing the reference. I am attempting to get a 
copy. I am aware of amny individuals who work with significantly 
higher levels of P-32, and their dosimetry demonstrates exposures 
that in many cases, have exceeded regulatory limits ... and not by a 
small magnitude, but by factors of 5 to 10 times higher. HOW they got 
that exposure is a different story. However, there can be very high 
exposures, and if inhaled, ingested, and depeosited internally, there 
can also be high exposures observed. The effect, that is also a 
different issue.

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