Re: Stripping Radon From Air Samples

["TOM_DIXIE" <tom_dixie@email.msn.com>]

Hi again Bob, If the levels are truely very low and the "interference" of
radon daughters is the problem, can you build a case for no respirators
based on lab analysis of your air samples at various times after taking
samples.  Alpha spec should work fine.

By the way, I also work in Las Vegas.

Tom O'Dou
tom_dixie@msn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Augdahl <augie@macconnect.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sunday, May 10, 1998 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: Stripping Radon From Air Samples


>Tom,
>
>At the risk of sounding sarcastic, (and I'm not trying to be) You must be
>a hell of a HP. Like must of the really good ones I know you can't answer
>a question without adding at least three new questions to the table. :)
>
>>1.  If the major contaminant in the soil is "primarily Pu-239 and Am-241"
is
>>it reasonable to risk allowing intake at the levels in the soil?
>
>The workers are well protected, we have a very good HP staff that look
>out for the workers. However in the DOE (everywhere else for that matter)
>regulated world we need documentation to back that up. We also need to
>show a good safe practice for protecting them, as I said in my post a
>24hr delay in counting does not exhibit that.
>
>>2.  What do you mean by immediate area, are on-lookers allowed in the same
>>area as the excavation?
>>
>No lookee lous are not allowed, however we still haven't found a way to
>control the Nevada winds or what direction they will blow.
>
>>3.  Is there possibly an occupational exposure to radon and daughters?
>>
>No more so than standing out in the middle of the Nevada desert than
>standing on the Las Vegas Strip.
>>4.  Regarding the program, Clay French has an e-mail address listed on the
>>AAHP - CHP list.
>>
>THANK-YOU so very much for the lead on Mr. French's e-mail address, I
>should have thought of that.
>
>Bob Augdahl
>RRPT
>augie@macconnect.com
>Las Vegas, NV