PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED fo: Louie H. Hempelmann, H. Div., May 24, 1988, Bubj: “Hotes on the Sandstone Personnel Receiving Beta Radiation” (Cont'd) . the monitor Informed then they were hot. | said he knev from a previous shot that the gloves of personnel became hot. Presence of gunk on the gloves of these personnel accounts for the fact that the burns seemed to be on the inner surfaces of the fingers toward the palm of the hand. One has difficulty in seeing how such a dose could be delivered by the handling of the filter papers. All four individuszis named above mentioned seeing tongs for handling the filter paper; they also mentioned the fact that they handled the filter papers rather indiscriminately although they vere avare that there was a quarter inch dead space on the periphery of each of these filter papers. The filter papers are about 10 x 18 inches. Although they handled there filter papers rather indiscriminately, it is hard to ace how a sustained beta dosage to the skin surface could be given beceuse the radioactive material on the paper probably was not in immediate cantact with the body surfaces for any sustained length of tims. And if any activity had come off the paper it would bave caused burns on the ends of the index fingers and thumbs. In their accounts of their work pointed out, for instance, that they kneeled down to pick up the two pieces of filter paper from each filter unit and stapled them together. cS vs ” 7 ehE+ np, Te hana eee 3)a eg oy Ons person held the two papers at the short enis vith both his hands while the other person used the ordinary kind of stapler to pin them together. It is, therefore, probable that the faces of these people were on the order of half a mster from the hot filter paper surfece. The filter paper as a eburce of radiation for the hands is to be contrasted with the gunk which obvicusly stuck to the cotton gloves and remained fairly close to the skin surface at all times. A final word concerning the position unite: Apparently it wes located on the inner so that when the men took hold of the mits to ' ground the gunk stuck to the inner surface of seeing this black gunk on the white filters. of this gunk on the filter wall of the filter unit, 2ift them through the the glove. Ho one mentionsd Lang expressed the opinion that it was not wet or ofly but rather was sooty. TBRRR story is of interest in that he helped take down four of the upper filter units having on rubber and cotton gloves. He then removed the gloves and proceeded to assist in preparing about tventy filter sheets with his bare hands. He expressed the idea that wpety his exposure would be lower if he could work quickly (bare-hanied). me PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED Exhibit M (Page 2) COPIED/DOE