RE: Decommissioning incinerators

["Bill Schadt" <schadt@worldnet.att.net>]

This is in response to Tony Cotterill's
request for information/references on
decommissioning of a hospital incinerator.  I
used the QUEST program and found many
references, but the following five seem most
relevant to his request.

Journal(s) Selected:
    Health Physics
(1958 - 1997)
    Radiation Protection Management
(1983 - 1997)
    Radiation Protection Dosimetry
(1981 - 1997)
    Medical Physics
(1974 - 1997)
    NCRP
(all)
    ICRP
(all)
    ICRU
(all)
    UNSCEAR
(all)
    Journal of Radiological Protection
(1981 - 1997)
    Physics in Medicine and Biology
(1956 - 1997)
    Radioactivity and Radiochemistry
(1990 - 1997)
    IAEA
(1959 - 1997)
    Physica Medica
(1990 - 1997)
    HPS Newsletter
(1955 - 1997)
    Bio-Assay and Anal Chem
(1955 - 1997)
    RSO
(1996 - 1997)

Health Phys May 1973;24(5):564-8
  Bush D  Hundal RS
THE FATE OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS BURNT IN AN
INSTITUTIONAL INCINERATOR.

Health Phys Jun 1981;40(6):902-4
  Taylor RA  Thompson JJ
DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATED
PATHOLOGICAL WASTE INCINERATOR.

Health Phys Jun 1983;44(6):671-5
  Landolt RR  Barton TP  Born GS  Morris VR
Vetter RJ  Zimmerman NJ
EVALUATION OF A SMALL, INEXPENSIVE
INCINERATOR FOR INSTITUTIONAL RADIOACTIVE
WASTE.

Health Phys Mar 1989;56(3):373-375
  Pickering CA  Hagopian HD  Evdokimoff VN
Health physics activities in the dismantling
of a radioactive incinerator.


I also know that Karin Gordon in Canada
presented a paper several years ago at a
Campus Radiation Safety Officers meeting
dealing with the decommissioning of a
crematorium which might also be relevant to
your needs.  Send me a direct email response
if you need to know how to contact her.


Bill Schadt, PhD, CHP
Radiation Technology, Inc.
P.O. Box 10457
Silver Spring, MD 20914-0457
(301) 622-9644 (voice)
(301) 622-1582 (fax)
info@chammp.com (email)