RADIOACTIVE DECONTAMINATION TESTS ON SURGEON'S GLOVES CONTAMINATED WITH PLUTONIUM
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4154345
A technique was devised for applying plutonium activity to gloves, washing them in various decontamination solutions, and evaluating the relative effectiveness of these solutions for removing the activity. When the most efficient solution for decontamination was determinded, decontamination of various lots of gloves from a laboratory handling plutonium was attempted. For a run-of-the-lab lot of gloves, 80% were decontaminated and recovered for re-use. For gloves from an extremely "hot" laboratory, recovery efficiency depended upon whether or net the lot had been cross-contaminated by one or two highly contaminated gloves. The cost of decontaminating gloves was approximately three times the cost of new gloves. While on a routine, large lot basis, this cost could be lowered considerably, it appears to be uneconomical to decontaminate gloves unless new gloves should become unavailable. "Consumer resistance" to washed gloves was found to be present among users. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos Scientific Lab., N. Mex.
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-007656
- OSTI ID:
- 4154345
- Report Number(s):
- LAMS-2117
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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