Re: NCRP#37 & Cremation

["Mike Bohan" <mike.bohan@yale.edu>]

        Reply to:   RE>NCRP#37 & Cremation

Hi RadSafers:

I've heard that NCRP#37 is under revision.  Does anyone know what it's current status is, and when the revision may be published??? 

NCRP#37 does consider cremation but, cremation rates, permanent implants and therapeutic radiopharmaceutical administrations have all increased greatly since then.  It's about time that a new analysis of this issue be performed.  I don't believe it will be bad, but the answer should be more definitive than the current recommendation, which can be interpreted in different ways by different people.

P.S. - I believe Sr-89 administrations may become rarer in the future, in favor of the shorter half-life and faster acting Samarium-153.

Cheers,
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