Gambling With Lives by Michelle Follette Turk

Author:Michelle Follette Turk [Turk, Michelle Follette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, United States, State & Local, West (AK; CA; CO; HI; ID; MT; NV; UT; WY), Technology & Engineering, Quality Control, Social Science, Human Services
ISBN: 9781948908962
Google: m-MNEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2020-12-15T00:44:56+00:00

A radiation monitor was giving a class on how to handle a radioactive source. . . . He came out and there is this lead-shielded box, [known as] a pig, and inside is radioactive material. The way you would normally take it out is you attach a cable to it, which is shielded, and this would pull out the radioactive material. . . . Well this guy opens up the container and pulls the thing out with his bare hand. With his bare hand! Now, there they reconstructed the time that he was exposed, the type of radiation, whether it was alpha which won’t even penetrate the skin, whether it was beta which really gets some penetration, whether it was nasty stuff like gamma. And they calculated the dose and he had significant exposure to his hands from a physics point of view. We watched this guy for a month. We did blood tests. I looked at his daily for two weeks. He didn’t even sunburn. He didn’t even get redness! Nothing! He got no adverse medical findings. It just goes to show that there is a wide margin of safety, number one [and that] individuals differ. Now, maybe somebody else might have picked it up and gotten some significant skin damage or exposure, but he got nothing, and in that case we had very accurate exposure reconstruction.43

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