Removal of residual contamination from clean protective clothing

Journal Article · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988 · Radiation Protection Management; (United States)

OSTI ID:5326063

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 during 1986, 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 dry-cleaned protective clothing. A survey of 24 other nuclear power plants in May and June of 1986 indicated that about half of these facilities had experienced instances of sweat-induced skin contamination on persons wearing laundered, clean protective clothing, and a simple experiment showed that perspiration was indeed capable of removing residual contamination from the 100% cotton fabric used in the Monticello Plant's coveralls. In order to further study this problem, a series of tests were performed on samples of the plant's protective clothing coveralls to determine how effective wet washing methods would be in removing residual contamination from this clothing, which previously had been laundered exclusively by dry cleaning.

• OSTI ID: 5326063
• Journal Information: Radiation Protection Management; (United States), Vol. 5:3; ISSN 0740-0640
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
DECONTAMINATION
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIATION PROTECTION
PLANNING
SKIN
DOSIMETRY
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
REACTOR OPERATORS
BODY
CLEANING
CLOTHING
DOSES
MONITORING
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ORGANS
PERSONNEL
POWER PLANTS
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
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