RE: Instrumentation for Emergencies -Reply

["Alan R. Marchand" <radarm@accessnv.com>]

49 CFR 173.441 (b) (1)  Closed transport vehicle under exclusive use transport
can have a package max. reading of 10 mSv/h (1000 mrem/h). 

Alan R. Marchand
radarm@accessnv.com

At 03:50 PM 8/7/98 -0500, you wrote:
>1.  Do not let radiological concerns in any way increase the risk of serious
>injury or death.  Physical inuries are certain, risk of death from cancer is
>comparably insignificant.
>
>2.  An ion chamber such which would enable open and closed windows would be
the
>best single instrument.  A GM frisker would only needed for insignificant
>amounts of radioactivity (i.e. clean-up after first response).
>
>3.  The most probable event in which materials would be released would be a
LSA
>package (~200mrem/hr), not a cask.  LSA packages are held to standards that
are
>not comparable to a cask shipment.
>
>5 minute time limit is up...  good luck!
>
>Sincerely,
>Glen Vickers
  
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