We recently had an individual, arriving on site for our outage, alarm our 
entrance portal monitors. We whole body counted him and identified peaks at 
507.4 and 573.2 keV. We determined Te-121 to be the likely suspect. The 
individual said he had a medical treatment about a month before and had been 
administered I-123. This seems to be the likely source, but I don't understand 
how an I-123 medical treatment would result in Te-121.

Can anyone explain to me where the Te-121 would have come from? Is there 
another nuclide which would give us these peaks?

Thanks,

Stephen J Holmes
Sr. Plant Health Physicist, CENG-RE Ginna NPP
[email protected]
585-771-3577

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