RE: tritiated water uptake

["Lamothe, Emelie" <lamothee@aecl.ca>]

It was spiked by a disgruntled worker.  Charges were laid and the
individual went to court.

Emelie Lamothe
djack@intranet.ca

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>From: 	D J Hornsey[SMTP:bssdjh@bath.ac.uk]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, October 07, 1997 8:11 AM
>To: 	Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: 	tritiated water uptake
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>Dear Radsafe,
>            The October issue of Health Physics carries an article
>analyzing the fate of body tritium after 8 radiation workers had an
>'unplanned acute tritiated water intake' in a Canadian nuclear plant in
>1990. The 1990 reference reporting the incident was published only in
>abstract form in Health Physics just after the incident. The exposed
>workers 4h post exposure showed 10^8 Bq/L in their urine and the
>contamination originated apparently from a juice dispenser. Whereas the
>article was useful it left me curious has to how a juice dispenser could
>have got so contaminated. Does any-one out there know of the results of a
>follow up of the origins of such a significant contamination? I would be
>very interested to know. Thankyou.
>
>                                               David Hornsey 
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