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Re: RADSAFE digest 1521
Radsafers,
I am looking for actual (hi-profile) cases where developing embryo/fetus
inadvertently received a relatively significant dose from radiographic
imaging sources (e.g., CT, Fluoro, Abd exams, even radiopharmaceutical
administration). Any current references/sources?
Ray
At 07:41 PM 9/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Contents:
>Re: LiF-Teflon Dosimeters ("Lindsay Tremethick" <lindsay@gh.vic.gov.au>)
>Re: Why nuclear is a "no-win" in the USA -Reply -Reply ("Ron Amoling"
<AMOLINGR@JOSLAB.HARVARD.EDU>)
>Re: Re[2]: International use of radiation symbol ("Dean W. Ervin"
<dervin@dps.state.oh.us>)
> DryBox (RON L. SHEPHERD <SHEPHRL@GWSMTP.NU.COM>)
>Cassini Press Conference ("Mercado, Don" <don.mercado@lmco.com>)
>PIC's (David Hearnsberger <hberger@trinity.tamu.edu>)
>(Fwd) Politics ("Dan Oldham - Elec. Systems" <dan-o@magadd2.nov.add.bnl.gov>)
>Re: Cassini Press Conference (Radoslav P Radev <rado@uclink2.berkeley.edu>)
>Re: Cassini Press Conference (Fox@acsh.org (Michael Fox))
>University Radiation Safety Programs ("Mitch J. Belanger"
<SAFMJB@langate.gsu.edu>)
>Reply to: RADSAFE digest 1519 (DAWRY.FRANK_P@MIAMI.VA.GOV)
>History: Bradbury/Eisenbud/Watters (Mike Grissom <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>)
>Re: Cassini Press Conference ("Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>)
>Re: Cassini Press Conference ("Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>)
>RE: University Radiation Safety Programs ("Reif, Ronald H."
<rreif@doeal.gov>)
>job openings ("Wangler, Ken W" <CCMAIL.KWANGLER@RANCH.STATE.ND.US>)
>Re: University Radiation Safety Programs (Michelle Wakelam
<Michelle.Wakelam@adm.monash.edu.au>)
>Free radium!! ("Edgerton, Patricia" <pedgerto@rhb.dhs.cahwnet.gov>)
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 11:13:07 +1000
>From: "Lindsay Tremethick" <lindsay@gh.vic.gov.au>
>Subject: Re: LiF-Teflon Dosimeters
>
>> I would like to solicit some specific information about LiF-Teflon disc
>> dosimeters.
>> 1. I need to better understand how UV light (from flourescent fixtures) can
>> affect the phosphor. I would be especially interested in any published data
>> (i.e., looking for references).
>
>Can't help here but I maintain TLD's in a dark enviroment till use. I
>have never looked into any UV light effects but the Victoreen manual
>said it happened!
>
>> 2. Annealing practices: I'd like to know what annealing cycles are used,
>> including temperature and time combinations, whether ovens are preheated
>> with dosimeters placed into a hot oven or the dosimeters are placed into a
>> cold oven and then heated, etc.
>
>The teflon DOES NOT like high temps. I managed to ?damage? a few
>teflon rods in the early days before I have read the instructions!!!!
>The rods now have a somewhat unpredictable response, if there is any
>predicability in teflon based TLD!!!
>
>The standard quick TLD anneal cycle of 400 C for an hour and 100 C
>for two hours is simply too hot. Unfortunately using a 300 C cycle
>does not fully clear all traps in the LiF, hence there is some signal
>left and I don't have any other choices other than the pre-programmed
>temps. I think a better temp is about 350 C but I am sure if that is
>incorrect someone else will put it straight. My oven usually starts
>from room temp or close too depending on how quickly things have to
>be done. Waiting for an over to cool down is about as exciting as
>watching paint dry! The TLD's all sit on stainless steel trays which
>very quickly attain room temp so it is only the oven internal
>enviromental temp that might be higher maybe 30-35 C.
>
>I have only ever had a dose response reproducibility of about 5-7%
>with the teflon disks but they are easier to work with than the small
>solid LiF chips. To keep track of them you can mark them with a
>graphite pencil without any problem, then it is really easy to sort
>them out when you drop the holding container on the floor!!!!!!!!!!
>
>If ther is anything else contact me otherwise
>Good luck
>All the standard disclaimers!!
>Lindsay Tremethick
>Radiation Oncology
>Geelong Hospital
>Geelong, Victoria, Australia
>Lindsay@gh.vic.gov.au
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 07:51:35 EST
>From: "Ron Amoling" <AMOLINGR@JOSLAB.HARVARD.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Why nuclear is a "no-win" in the USA -Reply -Reply
>
>FYI -
>
>There are 1000's of HP's working in non-nuke plant positions across
>the country. If the utilities can't find a way to make their nuke
>plants profitible, it won't mean the end to the HP profession.
>
>I don't know the statistics, but I'd venture to guess there are more
>HP's employed by hospitals, universities, biotech companies, etc.,
>than by the 100 or so nuke plants across the US.
>
>Ron Amoling
>amolingr@joslab.harvard.edu
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 09:19:13 +0000
>From: "Dean W. Ervin" <dervin@dps.state.oh.us>
>Subject: Re: Re[2]: International use of radiation symbol
>
>In reference to David Neil's message on "bomb shelter" emblems, the
>official symbol is three dark yellow three-sided triangles (all
>pointed down) which fill a black circle as a background. There are
>two triangles above, one below, all inside the circle. Below this
>large circle are the words "fallout shelter"
>
>The Civil Defense logo (of old) is a blue circle with one white
>triangle, pointed up, with the letters 'CD' in white just below the
>triangle, but inside the blue circle.
>
>I have not seen a CD emblem accompanying the fallout shelter signs,
>however, I am quite sure they are out there. Also, most emergency
>planning has gone away from the days of "all-out nuclear warfare
>bombing mankind back to the Stone Age" and are concentrating more on
>terrorist-use of a small nuclear weapon.
>
>Be safe!
>
>- Dean :-)
>============================================
>Dean Ervin, Ohio EMA
>Ohio Dept. of Public Safety
>(614) 799-3681 dervin@dps.state.oh.us
>============================================
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 10:03:56 -0400
>From: RON L. SHEPHERD <SHEPHRL@GWSMTP.NU.COM>
>Subject: DryBox
>
>Radsafers
>We are currently looking into making modifications to some piping that is
>located underwater along the wall of a Spent Fuel Pool. One of our options
>involves the use of a "DryBox". This box has three sides and a bottom. The
>open side will be sealed to the side of the pool and the pipe to be worked
will
>come through a cutout in the floor which will have a pipe seal attached to
it.
>The water will be pumped out of the box which will allow water pressure to
>force it against the wall. It will be supported using a crane and ballast
will
>be added to the box to provide a slight negative bouyancy.
>We have heard that these things have been used before in the industry.
Any of
>you folks out there have any experience with them?
>The system that we are playing with is a Class III has anyone tried
underwater
>cutting and welding of piping in Spent Fuel Pools? How did they perform
NDE on
>the welds?
>
>Responses should be sent directly to me since I doubt many are interested in
>this.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Ron Shepherd
>SHEPHRL@GWSMTP.NU.COM
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 07:34:27 -0700
>From: "Mercado, Don" <don.mercado@lmco.com>
>Subject: Cassini Press Conference
>
>Opponents of the use of plutonium in the Cassini Saturn probe have
>scheduled a noon press conference at the National Press Club according
>to the New York Times. Are there any Radsafers able to get to the press
>conference to counter the anti's claims or ask them for data backing up
>their claims? Can the HPS call a similar conference to present their
>point of view?
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 11:12:07 -0500 (CDT)
>From: David Hearnsberger <hberger@trinity.tamu.edu>
>Subject: PIC's
>
>Radsafe,
>
>I am in need of some 0-200 mR PIC's (Personal Ion Chambers). If anyone
>knows where I may obtain some of these, please let me know. Thanks in
>advance for any information that you may have.
>
>*****************************************************************
>David W. Hearnsberger phone: (409)845-7551 *
>Texas A&M University fax: (409)862-2667 *
>Nuclear Science Center email: hberger@trinity.tamu.edu*
>FE Box 89 Bldg. 1095 *
>College Station, Texas *
> 77840 *
>*****************************************************************
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 12:44:02 EST
>From: "Dan Oldham - Elec. Systems" <dan-o@magadd2.nov.add.bnl.gov>
>Subject: (Fwd) Politics
>
>I was asked to forward this to your list by a member from BNL, Edward
>Kaplan. We must stand up against ignorance no matter how futile it may
>seem. If you are moved to contact the politicians named below, _please_
>do so.
>
>------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>From: dano@northeast.net
>To: BNL list
>Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 22:31:20 +0000
>Subject: Politics
>Priority: normal
>
>Dear fellow Lab Employees and Friends,
>
> As you are most likely aware by now, Sens. D'Amato and Forbes
>have announced plans to introduce legislation that will have the HFBR
>shut down permanently. Their excuse is that they must do this for the
>health and welfare of the Island. This is, at best, unconvincing
>since the HFBR already sits idle and will remain so indefinitely. The
>worst part of this debacle goes beyond just the HFBR. Here we have
>our elected leaders bending to "squeaky-wheel" fear-mongers. There is
>obviously some political maneuvering afoot here. If the HFBR should
>indeed be de-commissioned, it certainly hasn't been properly
>determined yet. The worst part of this is that ignorance is reigning
>supreme. This is a knee-jerk, politically motivated response. Born of
>short-sighted ignorance, with absolutely no concept of the depths of
>it's far-reaching future effects on the whole of BNL, it shows a
>willingness to allow our future to be ransomed to those who would wish
>to take science back to the days of alchemy and leeches. If these
>attitudes had prevailed in the Sixties we would never have gotten to
>the moon, nor would we enjoy the lifestyles we have today because of
>the technologies derived from those research endeavors which allowed
>us to actually get to the moon. Likewise, how can anyone assess what
>the research of today at the HFBR will yield in our future?
>
> WE MUST RESPOND!
>
> Call D'Amato at 212-947-7393 and call Forbes at 516-345-9000
>and tell them they are making a rash, premature move. There are over
>3000 of us here at BNL. If we all make these simple calls and
>encourage spouses, family and friends to do the same, they will see
>that there is a group that constitutes a huge voting block that
>demands facts over fear. The HFBR is only the first step for our
>enemies, who wish to close the entire lab. We truly can not afford
>apathy. This is our future!
>
> Once Again:
>
> Alphonse D'Amato - 212 947-7393
> (email: senator_al@damato.senate.gov)
>
> Michael Forbes - 516-345-9000
>
>
>Thanks,
>Dan Oldham
>Tech. Specialist
>dano@northeast.net
>
>P.S. I am not sure how to group email everyone at BNL so you may get
>this mail again as part of another mailing. My apologies if this
>occurs.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 09:56:05 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Radoslav P Radev <rado@uclink2.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: Cassini Press Conference
>
>
>I endorse Don Mercado's opinion that the National HPS (probably with the
>help of the local chapter) should present our professional view and
>counter any unsubstantiated anti's claims at the planned press conference
>or issue a statement and distribute it to the media.
>
>Radoslav Radev
>
>On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Mercado, Don wrote:
>
>> Opponents of the use of plutonium in the Cassini Saturn probe have
>> scheduled a noon press conference at the National Press Club according
>> to the New York Times. Are there any Radsafers able to get to the press
>> conference to counter the anti's claims or ask them for data backing up
>> their claims? Can the HPS call a similar conference to present their
>> point of view?
>>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 12:31:52 -0500
>From: Fox@acsh.org (Michael Fox)
>Subject: Re: Cassini Press Conference
>
>The HPS can call a press conference and to be effective, the sooner the
better.
>Mike Fox
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Council on Science and Health
> 1995 Broadway, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10023-5860
> Tel: 212/362-7044 Fax: 212/362-4919
> URL: http://www.acsh.org
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 14:12:42 -0500
>From: "Mitch J. Belanger" <SAFMJB@langate.gsu.edu>
>Subject: University Radiation Safety Programs
>
>Radsafers,
>
>I'm searching for any information available concerning benchmarking
>studies done on college/university radiation safety programs. I'm
>particularly interested in information on:
>
>*Number of radiation safety staff members at each institution
>
>*Number of radioisotope shipments received per year
>
>*Number of X-ray devices on campus
>
>*Number of laser devices on campus
>
>If this topic has been previously discussed on RADSAFE I would
>appreciate any information available being forwarded to me.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Mitch Belanger
>safmjb@panther.gsu.edu
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: 08 Sep 97 14:33 EST
>From: DAWRY.FRANK_P@MIAMI.VA.GOV
>Subject: Reply to: RADSAFE digest 1519
>
>Last friday, on NPR's Science Friday, the topic was, the 'Cassini
>Project', which is the Saturn launch that's created a bit of a furor
>because of it's nuclear generator.
>There was a representative from NASA, an individual from the HPS
>(president Otto G. Raabe), and also one opponent, a Myshio Kocku (?sp),
>who is a nuclear physicist.
>The show was a delight to hear. The NASA/HPS team scored many points for
>the side of the Cassini mission. Myshio Kocku (?sp),who I used to listen
>to on radio back in New York City, kept trying to explode the information
>presented, sometimes by rudely interrupting the speakers presenting their
>points.
>All in all, I think that it was a good day for science; the
>Cassini mission in particular, and the public education in general.
>Although, I think that the protestors, (Myshio included) would still not
>be convinced.
>********************************************************
>********************************************************
>Frank P. Dawry
>Medical Physics
>dawry.frank@miami.va.gov
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 12:45:18 -0700
>From: Mike Grissom <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
>Subject: History: Bradbury/Eisenbud/Watters
>
>The following radiation sciences related professionals passed
>away this year:
>
>----------SanJoseMercuryNews/8-22-97/NewYorkTimes byline
>
>Norris Edwin Bradbury, chief of weapons lab
>
>Norris Edwin Bradbury, a physicist who reluctantly followed
>J. Robert Oppenheimer as the director of the nation's first
>nuclear weapons research center and then served longer in the
>job than anyone else, died on Wednesday at his home in Los
>Alamos, N.M. He was 88.
>
>Mr. Bradbury took over in 1945 as the director of what was
>soon billed as "the best-equipped physics laboratory in the
>world." He had been invited by Oppenheimer to do so and,
>after confering with his family, agreed to stay on for six
>months or until a permanent successor was found, whichever
>came first.
>
>What came was 25 years on the job, enough time for a wartime
>crash project to grow into Los Alamos National Laboratory
>[LANL]. Mr. Bradbury oversaw the transition and retired in
>1970 when the Atomic Energy Commission presented him with its
>highest honor, the Enrico Fermi Award.
>
>During his tenure, the laboratory developed the first
>thermonuclear weapons and continued to break ground with
>research in both nuclear and non-nuclear weaponry, in addition
>to building a solid foundation for basic research.
>
>----------SanJoseMercuryNews/8-23-97
>
>EISENBUD, Merril, 82,
>
>an environmental scientist who was the first health and safety
>chief of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the first head
>of New York City's Environmental Protection Agency; Friday of
>leukemia at the Carolina Meadows retirement community in Chapel
>Hill, N.C. In a career lasting six decades, he also taught and
>worked for 25 years at New York University's Institute of
>Environmental Medicine upstate, retiring in 1984. Mr. Eisenbud,
>the author of books, book chapters and about 200 scientific
>articles, had continued to write and teach.
>
>---
>
>George Watters, atomic bomb engineer (byline Don Brignolo/MNSW)
>
>George Michael Watters was the Manhattan Project's supervising
>chemical engineer, and he literally held the key to the reactor
>that produced plutonium for the first atomic device tested at
>Trinity site in Alamogordo, N.M.
>
>His work for the project was part of a 41-year career with DuPont
>Co. that ended with Mr. Watters' retirement in 1978. ...he died
>Thursday of cancer. He was 82.
>
>Mr. Watters grew up in Washburn, Wis., in the north woods near
>Lake Superior. He joined DuPont shortly after obtaining his
>bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the
>University of Wisconsin--the first member of his family of
>loggers to attend college. He performed many duties and worked
>in eight states for DuPont, but it was his war experience that
>set him apart.
>
>Early in the war, he and other DuPont engineers began working
>on the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government's top-secret program
>to develop the world's first atomic bomb. In Richland, Wash.,
>he was a nuclear chemical engineer working on the first atomic
>reactor at Hanford, Wash., under the direction of physicist
>Enrico Fermi.
>
>"It was so top secret they told my mother for her multiday train
>ride to Washington that she was to talk to no one and if asked,
>she was to say she was going to visit her husband who was a
>shoe salesman in Seattle," recalled his son, Don Watters of
>Los Altos [California].
>
>When Mr. Watters and his crew tried to start the reactor to
>produce the first controlled chain reaction of plutonium, it
>didn't work, his son said, "But Fermi (the Manhattan Project's
>leading physicist) simply recalculated the formula by hand on
>the back of an envelope and instructed my father to change one
>of the settings on the control panel.
>
>"And, it worked--but they didn't know if they'd blow up the
>planet or not [sic!]. Nobody had ever done this before, so
>this was very serious and risky."
>
>Mr. Watters signed the papers releasing the plutonium that
>was used in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in
>1945.
>
>"He said he had no regrets because he and his colleagues
>believed that Nazi Germany was developing a similar weapon,"
>his son said. "Also, they believed that if the U.S. were
>to invade Japan, over a million American lives would have
>been lost." ...
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 13:15:19 -0700
>From: "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: Re: Cassini Press Conference
>
>Concerning Pu-238 Thermoelectric Generators for the Cassini Mission
> Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
> University of California, Davis
>
>Contrary to some outlandish claims of horrible consequences associated with
>the use of plutonium-238 Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) power
>supplies in the Cassini probe to Saturn scheduled for October by NASA,
>there is actually little risk to anyone from accidental releases of
>plutonium. One of the outspoken critics of NASA is a New York Physics
>Professor, Michio Kaku, whose special area of research interest has been
>Einstein's equations. He has no background in toxicology, health physics,
>risk analysis, or any related field. He is telling the press that any
>accident involving Cassini will probably involve major loss of life,
>widespread cancer induction, and considerable property damage. He predicts
>the end of NASA and U.S. space research if there is an accident.
>
>In order to pose a significant risk to people from alpha radiation,
>plutonium must be deposit within the human body by being breathed as
>finely-divided airborne particles. Plutonium outside the body or swallowed
>into the gastrointestinal tract poses little risk. Therefore, the important
>issues relate to the ways in which plutonium could be converted to airborne
>micron-sized airborne particles in an accident.
>
>The RTG's are inert radioactive batteries that provide electricity
>thermo-ionic materials utilizing the natural heat energy associated with
>radioactive decay by alpha emission. The rigorous engineering safety design
>of the RTG precludes serious release of inhalable plutonium from these
>devices even in a catastrophic accident. Then plutonium is in the form of
>high-fired ceramic pellets of plutonium dioxide. The plutonium is 80%
>Pu-238. The pellets are wrapped in a protective layer of iridium and
>protected by three layers of inert, heat-resistance composite graphitic
>materials. If the rocket blows up during blastoff, contamination, if any,
>would be quite localized, and the inhalable fraction would be very small.
>
>After the launch, the Cassini vehicle is scheduled to travel to venus,
>orbit venus to pick up that planets momentum, and swing back close to the
>earth (500 miles) to get han extra boost for its trip to Saturn. Accidental
>re-entry into the earth's atmosphere during this fly-by could lead to the
>release and dispersion into the atmosphere of up to about 6% of the
>plutonium-238 contained within the RTG power supplies. The resulting
>radiation exposure, if any,to people would be too small to result in any
>meaningful risk.
>
>Since the first nuclear weapons test in July 1945, approximately 360,000
>curies of plutonium-239/240 have been released into the atmosphere of the
>earth. In addition, 17,000 curies of plutonium-238 were released into the
>atmosphere in April 1964 as a result of the high-altitude burn-up of an
>early-model satellite power source. Because of these releases, every person
>living on the earth today has small amounts of plutonium in lung, liver and
>bones, but the radiation dose received from these traces of plutonium is a
>small fraction of natural background ionizing radiation exposures. There is
>no known or expected risk from with this worldwide dispersion of plutonium
>in the environment.
>
>The Cassini probe will utilize about 393,000 curies of plutonium-238.
>Although quite unlikely, even if the whole vehicle vaporizes in the
>atmosphere during the fly-by, the total plutonium released into the
>environment would only be about doubled. Subsequently, people on earth
>might inhale trace amounts of Pu-238 leading to an average annual effective
>dose equivalent from alpha radiation of about one millirem or less
>depending on the rate of clearance from the atmosphere. We each receive
>about this amount of ionizing radiation exposure every day of every year
>from natural background sources and this is about the same dose of alpha
>radiation that people have received from past exposures to plutonium
>released to the atmosphere. There is no known or expected risk associated
>with such small radiation exposures.
>
>Otto G. Raabe
>9/5/97
>Davis, CA
> *****************************************************
> Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
> [President, Health Physics Society, 1997-1998]
> Institute of Toxicology & Environmental Health (ITEH)
> (Street address: Old Davis Road)
> University of California, Davis, CA 95616
> Phone: 916-752-7754 FAX: 916-758-6140
> E-Mail: ograabe@ucdavis.edu
> ******************************************************
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 13:33:29 -0700
>From: "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: Re: Cassini Press Conference
>
>At 12:43 PM 9/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>The HPS can call a press conference and to be effective, the sooner the
>better.
>>Mike Fox
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The American Council on Science and Health
>> 1995 Broadway, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10023-5860
>> Tel: 212/362-7044 Fax: 212/362-4919
>> URL: http://www.acsh.org
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>September 8, 1997
>
>I represented the HPS on NPR Science Friday which aired across the country
>last Friday at 3:30 EDT.
>
>If I knew how to call a press conference I would do it. I am receiving
>calls from reporters from all over the U.S.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Otto
>
>
> *****************************************************
> Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
> [President, Health Physics Society, 1997-1998]
> Institute of Toxicology & Environmental Health (ITEH)
> (Street address: Old Davis Road)
> University of California, Davis, CA 95616
> Phone: 916-752-7754 FAX: 916-758-6140
> E-Mail: ograabe@ucdavis.edu
> ******************************************************
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:14:42 -0600
>From: "Reif, Ronald H." <rreif@doeal.gov>
>Subject: RE: University Radiation Safety Programs
>
>Mitch-
>Dr. Ring and Dr. Shapiro presented this information at the 1997 HPS
>meeting. Their phone numbers are in the HPS directory. Call me if you
>need the numbers (505-845-5094).
>
>Ron Reif
>
>>----------
>>From: Mitch J. Belanger[SMTP:SAFMJB%langate.gsu.edu@internet.al.gov]
>>Sent: Monday, September 08, 1997 12:21 PM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list
>>Subject: University Radiation Safety Programs
>>
>>Radsafers,
>>
>>I'm searching for any information available concerning benchmarking
>>studies done on college/university radiation safety programs. I'm
>>particularly interested in information on:
>>
>>*Number of radiation safety staff members at each institution
>>
>>*Number of radioisotope shipments received per year
>>
>>*Number of X-ray devices on campus
>>
>>*Number of laser devices on campus
>>
>>If this topic has been previously discussed on RADSAFE I would
>>appreciate any information available being forwarded to me.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>Mitch Belanger
>>safmjb@panther.gsu.edu
>>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: 08 Sep 1997 16:50:16 GMT
>From: "Wangler, Ken W" <CCMAIL.KWANGLER@RANCH.STATE.ND.US>
>Subject: job openings
>
> North Dakota's Radiation Control Program is looking for candidates to
> fill 2 open positions. One position is in the radon program, the other
> is in licensing and inspection of radioactive materials. For job
> description information and application forms, see the ND Department
> of Health (NDDH) home page at
> http://www.ehs.health.state.nd.us/ndhd/index.html under "job
> opportunities" or Job Service North Dakota web site at
> http://www.state.nd.us/www/jobs.html (job orders 7010111 and 7010112).
> For other information call NDDH personnel office at (701) 328-2392.
> Ken Wangler, the manager of the radiation control program can be
> reached at (701) 328-5188 or electronically at
> ccmail.kwangler@ranch.state.nd.us . The radon position closes Sept 15
> and the licensing position closes Sept 22.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 09:33:52 +0000
>From: Michelle Wakelam <Michelle.Wakelam@adm.monash.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: University Radiation Safety Programs
>
>There is a benchmarking program that is underway on all aspects of
>occupational health and safety (including radiation safety) at
>Universities.
>
>This is being run by CSHEMA (The Campus Safety, Health
>and Environmental Management Association) and is being coordinated by
>a consultant Barbara S. Shafer & Associates (BSSA). It does cost the
>organisation to become involved in this benchmarking survey.
>
>If you are interested in more details you should contact Kim Emerson
>of BSSA, (email: kemerson@barbarashafer.com).
>
>Regards
>
>Michelle Wakelam
>________________________________________________________________
>Michelle Wakelam
>Occupational Hygienist and
>Assistant Radiation Protection Officer
>Occupational Health, Safety and Environment
>Monash University,
>Wellington Road,
>Clayton, Victoria, 3168
>Australia
>email: Michelle.Wakelam@ADM.monash.edu.au
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:28:00 -0700
>From: "Edgerton, Patricia" <pedgerto@rhb.dhs.cahwnet.gov>
>Subject: Free radium!!
>
>
>We have a 500 uCi Radium-226 "Alphatron" vacuum gauge for the taking. I
>understand the unit is used to measure small fractions of atmosphere; as you
>increase the vacuum, radiation detectors will measure an increase in
>exposure and this will indicate the amount of vacuum.
>
>Everyone needs one of these!!
>
>If you have any questions contact Paul Baldenweg in our Southern California
>office at PBaldenw@rhb.dhs.cahwnet.gov or (213) 580-5790.
>
>***********************
>Trisha Edgerton, MS, CHP
>California Department of Health Services
>Radiologic Health Branch
>pedgerto@rhb.dhs.cahwnet.gov
>(916) 322-6268
>
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