Published 1975
| Version v1
Report
Soil density meter incident
Creators
Description
As packages were being transferred from one plane to another at a metropolitan airport, an instrument fell from a package and was picked up by a cargo handler. The instrument was a soil density meter containing a 137Cs/241Am/Be source. Monitoring of the package and hands of the cargo handler revealed very little contamination. Photographs of the incident were taken by a television crew and a news report contained several inaccuracies and misinterpretations
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- 7th annual national conference on radiation control
- Imprint Pagination
- p. 110-113.
- Report number
- DHEW/FDA--76-8026
Conference
- Title
- 7. annual national conference on radiation control.
- Dates
- 27 Apr 1975.
- Place
- Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States of America (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 7275510
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- AIRCRAFT; AMERICIUM 241; BERYLLIUM; CESIUM 137; CONTAMINATION; HANDS; PACKAGING; PERSONNEL; RADIATION ACCIDENTS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOMETERS; TELEVISION; TRANSPORT
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALKALINE EARTH METALS; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; AMERICIUM ISOTOPES; ARMS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BODY; BODY AREAS; CESIUM ISOTOPES; ELEMENTS; HEAVY NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; LIMBS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; MONITORING; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- Imprint:GPO $4.40.