[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Savannah River National Laboratory (SC) "Time Out"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

SRS facility's contamination incidents led to 3-week 'time out'

By Rob Pavey
Augusta Chronicle (GA)
March 18, 2010

Savannah River National Laboratory took the unusual step of declaring a 
three-week "time out"  last month for workers and facilities that handle 
radioactive materials - all because of an upswing in contamination 
incidents.

"It wasn't so much the severity, but more the frequency," said deputy 
lab director Paul Deason, who halted work in some areas to reevaluate 
the monitoring rules under which individual labs within the U.S. Energy 
Department facility are governed.

The decision, he said, was entirely voluntary and came on the heels of 
seven contamination episodes from September to February - a sum well 
above the average.



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For the entire article, see
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2010-03-18/srs-facilitys-contamination-incidents-led-3-week-time-out?v=1268923312

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