I suggest you have a chat with your safety officer/ environmental safety office about this incident. In Canada, the facility must have a license to handle radioactive isotopes. The facility must be monitored and personnel trained in handling, decontamination and disposal of radioactive waste. Disposal of radioactive waste is regulated and documented by your facility's radiation safety officer. Even low-level tritium disposal must be documented. Your waste container may be "hot" as well as the area around your instrument. This is very serious. I would blow a gasket too! Ernest Stapleton Division Manager Immunology and Genetics Laboratories Room 1524 Health Sciences Center St. John's, Newfoundland A1B 3V6 Canada 709-777-8654 -----Original Message----- From: Di Feng [mailto:di_feng@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:03 PM To: cyto-inbox Subject: saftety issue on flow Hello I do flow in our core facility lab. Recently I found someone use the machine to acquire samples containing radioactive samples. A note was left there saying that " Do not operate until the wipe test result is submitted." . My question is: Is that enough for the radiation safety in flowlab? What should one do to "clean" the machine after running the radioactive samples? I thought he did not do anything special after running the sample. Regards DiReceived on Tue Jan 25 14:58:00 2005
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