PMID- 7355722
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19800425
LR  - 20131121
IS  - 0002-8894 (Print)
IS  - 0002-8894 (Linking)
VI  - 41
IP  - 1
DP  - 1980 Jan
TI  - The decontamination of radium from a commercial building located in a large 
      Canadian city.
PG  - 49-60
AB  - In August, 1975, the Ministry of Health of the Province of Ontario at the request 
      of one of the tenants of a building in a large Canadian city conducted a 
      radiation survey of the third floor of the building. The survey, although 
      preliminary, showed that high radiation existed on the third and second floors 
      and that significant contamination existed in some other parts of the six-floor 
      building. The contamination was identified as radium-226. An investigation 
      revealed that the third floor of the building had been used during World War II 
      for processing radium and also for some radium dial painting work. The Atomic 
      Energy Control tboard (AECB) requested Atomic Energy of Canadian Limited (AECL) 
      to remove the radium contaminant from the building. AECL assigned the job to its 
      Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (CRNL). The objectives were to reduce the radium 
      concentration throughout the building so that radon decay products would be less 
      than 0.02 Working Levels (WL) and exposure rates would be less than 50 microR/h. 
      The techniques used and the extent of decontamination achieved are reported.
FAU - White, J M
AU  - White JM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Am Ind Hyg Assoc J
JT  - American Industrial Hygiene Association journal
JID - 0371160
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants, Radioactive)
RN  - Q74S4N8N1G (Radon)
RN  - W90AYD6R3Q (Radium)
SB  - IM
MH  - Accidents
MH  - Air Pollutants, Radioactive
MH  - Canada
MH  - Construction Materials
MH  - *Decontamination/standards
MH  - Environmental Exposure
MH  - *Radiation Monitoring
MH  - *Radium
MH  - Radon/standards
MH  - Time Factors
EDAT- 1980/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 1980/01/01 00:01
CRDT- 1980/01/01 00:00
PHST- 1980/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1980/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1980/01/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/15298668091424348 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am Ind Hyg Assoc J. 1980 Jan;41(1):49-60. doi: 10.1080/15298668091424348.