Operational Radiation Safety

The port area of Vancouver and two simulated explosion sites (red circles) that released simulated radioactivity into the environment (highest being red lowering to blue on the perimeter). The limited area of the exercise introduced some significant artificialities such as the location of the Federal Radiological Assessment Team's command center, which is shown as the ellipse. See article by Gary H. Kramer and colleagues on page S55 for more information. Photograph courtesy of Google Imagery.

Contents of Vol. 96, No. 5, May 2009

INTERVIEW
RSO Interview with Mark Melanson
René Michel

ARTICLES
Measurement of the Activity Per Unit Mass with Hand-Held Alpha and Beta Detectors
Michael W. McNaughton

Educating Medical Staff about Responding to a Radiological or Nuclear Emergency
M. Carol McCurley, Charles W. Miller, Florie E. Tucker, Amy Guinn, Elizabeth Donnelly, Armin Ansari, Maire Holcombe, Jeffrey B. Nemhauser, and Robert C. Whitcomb, Jr.

Anatomy of and Lessons Learned from a Canadian National-Scale Radiological Exercise: ExIT-08
Gary H. Kramer, Dana Beaton, Aleisha Tenney, Barry Hauck, Kevin Capello, and Deborah Quayle

The Effects of a Custom-Made Lead Collar on Dose Rates of Patients Treated with ¹³¹I
Gary H. Kramer, Kevin Capello, and Erick Cardenas-Mendez

Application of a Dry-Gas Meter for Measuring Air Sample Volumes in an Ambient Air Monitoring Network
Brad G. Fritz

Other Content
Erratum