Re: tritium watch- more info

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

Les

Do you remember the authors of the paper, or its title? We're curious as to
how the problem was even recognized.

Chris Alston
alstonc@odre.odr.georgetown.edu

At 01:39  11/20/97 -0600, you wrote:
>There was a paper at the '96 or '97 HPS meeting about
>an import company that decided to work on defective
>watchs (about 10% of their imported inventory) without
>being aware of tritium control issues.  They had a
>substantial cleanup job and measureable (but not large)
>internal exposures.  As I vaguely recall noone exceeded
>500 mrem.  The cost of decon was the major impact.
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