RE: Ir-192 exposure in Peru

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>A long time ago this was posted on radsafe.  I was wondering if >anyone 
>heard any reports of what the final out come was to the >individual who put 
>the source in his pocket.

A list of major radiation accidents (1945-1999) in the IAEA Bulletin 
41/3/1999 gives the following:
1999 Peru, Iridium-192/radiography, up to 100 Gy locally;leg amputation. The 
interpretation of the table must be that the individual survived.

The table covers about 100 radiation accidents and about 105 individuals who 
have died as a direct rresult of these accidents. 28 of these individuals 
represent the Chernobyl accident, 13 a cobalt 60 accident in Costa Rica in 
1996.

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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