Re: release of patient based on NRCREG 35.75

[BLHamrick@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-11-25 16:58:19 EST, csmarcus@ucla.edu writes:

<<  HPS recommended that NRC exempt all patient body fluid-contaminated
 articles when they hit a sanitary landfill on the basis that it has already
 been determined that no one is going to get irradiated above regulatory
 limits with this waste.  That is, solve the problem of landfill standards.
>>

The problem is that when the truck alarms, until someone digs through the load
of trash, no one knows whether it's patient contaminated waste or something
more sinister.  Of course now with the more widespread use of MCA's, we can
generally identify the isotope without dumping the truck, but it still means a
trip to the dump for the identification.

Barbara L. Hamrick
BLHamrick@aol.com
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