Abstract
RADIOACTIVE discharges resulting from the practice of nuclear medicine are controlled by the Department of the Environment, who grant licences to individual hospitals for the discharge of liquid wastes under the Radioactive Substances Act, 1960. A few years ago most workers in nuclear medicine would have thought that the large degree of dilution occurring when hospital effluent enters a public sewage system would remove any possibility of it having any environmental effect. Because of the recent rapid increase in the medical use of radionuclides, however, there is now some concern regarding environmental contamination1,2.
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