An incident occurs when a cremator staff who processed the remains of radioactivity is exposed

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Radiopharmaceuticals are pharmaceuticals using radioisotopes. It turned out that the staff of the cremation place where the body was carried was exposed by the body of a man who received radiation medicine several days before his death several days ago.

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American 69-year-old man is as a treatment for pancreatic tumor two days before the death lutetium had been administered the investigational drug, including lutetium -177 which is an isotope of. The man died two days after medication, was buried three days after the cremation, and was buried. The half-life of lutetium-177 contained in the investigational drug was 6.65 days, but the man was cremated five days after medication.

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The doctor who performed radiation treatment for men was not notified for a while that the man died. It was discovered that men had been buried without the half-life of the administered medicines administered, and investigation of the crematories was decided. As a result of the survey using the Geiger counter , an irradiation dose rate of 7.5 microroentgens per hour was detected at the maximum. People placed in this environment will be exposed to 0.0075 rem radiation per hour. The exposure limit per "one year" set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Bureau is 5 rem, but the exposure limit per "one year" determined by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission is 0.1 rem. Under this circumstance, it is a calculation that exceeds the one-year exposure limit of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission in just 14 hours.

In addition, when the investigator examined the urine of the staff at the crematorium, lutetium-177, which was the problem this time, was not detected, but another technologium, "technetium-99m", was detected. Exposure from radiopharmaceuticals remaining in corpses was discovered not only in this case but as a problem that existed before.

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There are no federal regulations on radioactive materials in the crematorium, and regulations vary from state to state. For example, in Florida state, unless licensed, it is forbidden to burn radioactive waste in the crematorium, while in Arizona there is no regulation that obligates patients who died to inform the cremation that radiopharmaceuticals were being administered . It is concluded that the cremation rate in the United States of 2017 is 50%, the frequency and extent of the long-term exposure of staff working in the crematorium, and further investigation on the health effects are necessary.