Re: Re[2]- PI with I-131 Tre

["Mike Bohan" <mike.bohan@yale.edu>]

        Reply to:   RE>Re[2]: PI with I-131 Treatment and Immediate Return to
Work

Jim,

CARELESSNESS!!!???  Would you rather we withhold care to nuclear power workers
or lock them away like criminals  for a sentence of 10 half-lives and make them
pay for the incarceration!!!???

I believe you chose the wrong word on this one.  This may cause operational
problems for you, but I would not term it "carelessness by the radio-med
industry".

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Date: 23/06/97 12:55 PM
To: Mike Bohan
From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
     Al, and others
        Your probably absolutely right, the "Exposure" received is 
     meaningless. 
        The problem is most certainly one of contamination. Some of us, in 
     the Nuclear Power Industry, would have to restrict this individual to 
     a 'No Access' situation as our exit monitors are set low enough (for 
     good industry practice of "PROPER" rad-material control) (2.25 nCi per 
     zone, <50 nCi total surface) that this person and anyone in contact 
     (toilet seat, phone, etc.) with them would not be able to leave 
     without major decontamination efforts and reams of documentation. 
        We require that ALL rad-med patients report to us(the 
     H.P.Staff)after the procedure and periodically thereafter until we 
     deem they are 'clean' enough to re-enter the station. 
        We simply choose not to deal with this carelessness from the 
     radio-med industry at our exit point(s). Better to keep them out 
     entirely.
     
     Jim Wren, RPT
     DNPS
     drejz@ccmail.ceco.com
     
     This is only the simple opinion of a R.P.Tech that has been down this 
     road for 23 years, and it is still very bumpy with many blind curves.