Radiological Site Cleanup Health and Safety Preservation Aviation Cleanup 2005

This clip shows worker health and safety protections in place at this Superfund site in North Hollywood, California. Two small warehouses were filled to overflowing with more than one million obsolete World War II aircraft gauges, many contaminated with radioactive Radium 226. Additional gauges were found in an outside storage yard in old wooden and cardboard boxes, many of which were leaking. It was one of a series of sites involving radium-dial aircraft gauges to which EPA responded. This site was the largest found at that time. The large amount of debris, the poor condition of the site, and lack of security created an extreme fire hazard. Improper handling of radioactive materials in large and small industries can create extensive contamination of buildings, equipment, and land. These sites are not only dangerous but are expensive to clean up. For more information on radiation link to http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/index.html . A good source of information on worker protection from radiation can be found at the US Department of Energy Office of Health, Safety and Security website at: http://www.hss.energy.gov/ . The entire 15 minute DVD, Preservation Aviation Superfund Cleanup, is available for free from the EPA at: http://www.ertvideo.org/Pages/Video.html .

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Radiation
• radium
• 226
• radioactive
• EPA
• DOE
• NIOSH
• OSHA
• NIEHS
• Superfund
• California
• time
• distance
• shielding
• rad
• WWII
• ALARA
• hazard
• health
• occupational
• exposure

[XTwina]

Its horrible, that all those instruments will be destroyed :-(

[tommmmmmmmx]

wow i used to buy stuff from there in the 70s for a ham radio my dad gave me