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Re: Auburn Steel, GA Irradiator Source Incidents ?
Pete,
Jim Yusko (Penn. Dept. of Environmental Health) is one of the most
knowledgeable people in the US on source melts at steel mills. His phone
no. is 412-442-4000 (Yusko.James@a1.dep.state.pa.us).
The source at the radiation sterilization facility in Georgia, was at RSI,
Corp. in Decatur, GA. The source in question was manufactured by a DOE
contractor as a storage can for 60,000 to 80,000 Curies of Cs-137. These
large Cs-137 sources were manufactured at the WESF facility on the Hanford
Site near Richland, WA. There is at least one detailed report describing
the incident, in which one of the WESF cans developed a small,
intermittent, leak into the shielding pool at the facility. I don't have
the report no. immediately at hand.
Andy Tompkins
Woodstock, GA 30189
jatalbq@mindspring.com
At 07:08 AM 4/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I need some info on a source melt at a steel company in Auburn, NY and also
>a source encapsulation failure at a sterilization facility somewhere in GA.
>I am trying to put together a table that briefly describes some source
>incidents. I tried a search through Quest but came up empty and was hoping
>someone in radsafe land that is familiar with those two incidents could help
>me finish this table.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Pete C.
>
>
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