RE:

["Feldman, Gerald" <gfeldman@msx.ndc.mc.uci.edu>]

Sue:

All hospitals are required to have emergency power.

Ask your facilities maintenance people to place the irradiator on one of the
emergency power circuits in your institution.  Since the irradiator uses
sealed sources for the actual irradiation, it should use very little
electric power and should not pose any significant load on the emergency
generators.  

Hope this helps.

Gerald Feldman, M.S.
Radiation Safety Officer
University of California, Irvine Medical Center
Orange, California
gfeldman@uci.edu  

-----Original Message-----
From: Weiss, Sue [mailto:SWeiss@childrensmemorial.org]
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 8:57 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 


Radsafers,
	Our blood bank has asked that we come up with a way to irradiate
blood if the power to the irradiator goes out. Any thoughts? 

Sue Weiss, C .N.M.T., FSNMTS
Radiation Safety Officer
The Children's Memorial Medical Center
2300 Children's Plaza
Chicago, IL 60614
773-880-4663
773-880-4455 (Fax)
sweiss@childrensmemorial.org
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