Handling DU

[marvinturkanis@alum.mit.edu]

I am looking for experiences with and protocols for handling depleted uranium in massive forms, such as trimmers bars when remanufacturing teletherapy collimators. There is no machining. drilling, or chemical treatments involved, only manual handling the bars.

The concern is uranium chemical toxicity not its radioactivity.
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