Protective clothing laundering and monitoring at nuclear power plants

Journal Article · Mon Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1988 · Radiation Protection Management; (United States)

OSTI ID:5272520

Hylko, J M ^[1]; Miller, M L ^[2]; Brehm, L E; Peterson, S K ^[3]

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1. Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA (United States). Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
2. Weston (Roy F.), Inc., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
3. Northern States Power Co., Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, Monticello, MN (US)

This paper reports that a small but significant number of skin contamination incidents at Northern States Power Company's Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant were believed to have been caused by residual contamination in laundered, clean protective clothing. Since very little information was available on this mode of skin contamination, a two-part study was undertaken to evaluate it more fully. The first part of this study consisted of a survey of protective clothing laundering and monitoring practices at 24 nuclear power plants. The second part of the study was a simple experiment to evaluate the effect of perspiration on the transfer of residual contamination from laundered clothing.

• OSTI ID: 5272520
• Journal Information: Radiation Protection Management; (United States), Journal Name: Radiation Protection Management; (United States) Vol. 5:1; ISSN 0740-0640; ISSN RPMAE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
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560190 -- Radiation Protection Standards-- (1992-)
61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY
CLOTHING
CONTAMINATION
EVALUATION
MEDICAL PERSONNEL
MONITORING
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
PERSONNEL
POWER PLANTS
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIATION PROTECTION
RADIOLOGICAL PERSONNEL
REACTOR SAFETY EXPERIMENTS
SAFETY STANDARDS
STANDARDS
THERMAL POWER PLANTS