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To: John Walliker who wrote (67139)3/5/2001 8:38:14 PM
From: Jdaasoc  Read Replies (1) of 93625
 
john:
The radiation protection physicists found that the main air conditioning system filters were sufficiently contaminated that they had to be treated as radioactive waste

Since we were talking about radioactivity, I would like to relay to you one of the official policies of the Columbia University Dept of Radition Safety from about 1980 when I was there.
When disposing of any quantity of radioactive liquids of isotopes of fairly short half lives, the proper disposal technique was to flush it down the drain with a large quantity of water. It was explained to me that by the time the radioactivity in the laboratory drains reached the Hudson River and level of radioactivity would be sufficently diluted to render it within NRC guidelines. LOL

Needless to say I never tried to catch any fish from the Hudson River again. I hope this policy has changed since I was there because the amount of P32 used in molecular biology must be at least several orders of magnitude higher since I was there.

john
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