Shipping radioactive substances
OCT 01, 1949
With radioisotope shipments from Oak Ridge alone now running well over three hundred per month, an increase of approximately 500 percent in two years, the need for a comprehensive set of regulations which might be adopted by all carriers was imperative. The National Research Council has worked on the problem of setting up safe standards. The material for this article is taken from a report prepared by Robley D. Evans, the full text of which will be available at a later date from the National Research Council.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066265
In 1936, the manager of a film processing station in Chicago noticed periodic density variations occuring in rolls of 16‐mm film sent in by mail for processing. The possibility that these rolls had been irradiated by unprotected shipments of medical radium or radon in the mails was suspected, and inquiry at the Chicago Post Office proved this to be the case.
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Robley D. Evans. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
© 1949. American Institute of Physics
