"We were out there with pretty perfunctory equipment, " says Dave Nelson, a civilian health physicist who was contracted to do DU-related cleanup work in the gulf and became a member of the Pentagon's DU Assessment Team.
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Kathren, a health physicist, and Russell, a university pharmacy research coordinator, head the U . S . Transuranium and Uranium Registries, a 26-year-old federal research program that relies on nuclear workers who volunteer to donate their tissues.
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Health Physicist Carl C . Gamertsfelder, Ph . D . described his recollections as to the reasons for the Green Run by attributing it to the intentions of the Air Force to be able to track Soviet releases.
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This is untrue, says Doug Rokke, until earlier this year the Pentagon's main expert on DU . During the gulf war, the health physicist was a member of the Army's DU Assessment Team, measuring contamination on the battlefield.
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And although alpha rays are extremely weak and cannot penetrate human skin or a thin sheet of paper, they can ultimately cause cancer if plutonium particles remain lodged long enough next to living human tissues, most health physicists agree.
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Trained as one of the first health physicists through the first Atomic Energy Health Physics Fellowship Training Program at the University of Rochester, Koontz contributed to the development of practices, instrumentation, and techniques to protect people from ionizing radiation.
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Facilities and physical locations that are deemed to be contaminated may be cordoned off by a health physicist and labeled " Contaminated area . " Persons coming near such an area would typically require anti-contamination clothing ( " anti-Cs " ).
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Health physicists principally work at facilities where radionuclides or other sources of ionizing radiation ( such as X-ray generators ) are used or produced; these include hospitals, government laboratories, academic and research institutions, nuclear power plants, regulatory agencies, and manufacturing plants.
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Northeast Utilities, owner of the Haddam Neck, Conn ., plant, has hired two health physicists from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell to determine how much radiation the workers absorbed on Nov . 2 when they collected radioactive paint chips by hand and did not wear respirators.
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Within the Manhattan District, the name " health physicist " seems to have been derived in part from the need for secrecy ( and hence a code name for radiation protection activities ) and the fact that there was a group of mostly physicists working on health related problems.
