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21 November 2009

Operational Radiation Safety

Barbra Carmichael of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Y-12 facility Analytical Chemistry Bioassay group uses a bar-code reader to download information about a sample before it is counted on the lab’s alpha spectrometry system. See article by Peter O’Connell et al. on page S131 for more information.

Contents of Vol. 97, No. 2, August 2009

INTERVIEW
RSO Interview with Myung Jo
René Michel

ARTICLES
Developing In-Vitro Bioassay Goals for Plutonium and Uranium for Department of Energy Facilities
Peter O’Connell, Joel Rabovsky, Judith Foulke, and Camille Daniels

Potential for Contamination during Removal of Radioactive Seeds from Surgically Excised Tissue
K.L. Classic, J.B. Brunette, and S.K. Carlson

The Possible Effect on Personnel Dose by Two Copper Filters Covering Element 1 of the Harshaw 8814 TLD Badge
R.N. Reciniello, S. Sengupta, and R.L. Thompson

Disposal of a ⁶⁰Co Self-Shielded Irradiator through the Department of Energy's Off-Site Source Recovery Project
Peter Graham Vernig