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Re: Use of lead aprons for declared pregnant workers
We don't recommend it at all. The range of the P-32 beta is not sufficient
to reach the developing fetus, you can generate bremsstrahlung x-rays in
the apron, and you add physical stress to the mother by having to carry
around the additional weight of the apron.
Andy
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RSO, University of Rochester http://www.rochester.edu/Admin/EHAS/rshpage.htm
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"Just as, from the pawprint alone, one recognizes the lion." Johann
Bernoulli, 1697 referring to Newton's anonymous solution of the
brachistochrone problem.
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