Okay, how frequent are events of those magnitude compared to, say,
firefighters responding to an accident involving a unit dose delivery
vehicle, or a fire in a small tracer lab, etc.? In a Chernobyl or
Tokaimura situation, the kinds of instruments needed to get good info for a
good subsequent dose reconstruction would probably need a proficient HP to
operate them, unless you want to base your calculations on measurements
taken by someone who last saw such an instrument at a training session up
to a year ago. If the situation calls for sophisticated
detection/quantification equipment, I'd say it also calls for a subject
matter expert to operate it and advise the response commander.
For the record, I have no connection to the work on these dosimeters.
Phil
At 10:15 AM 3/17/00 -0600, you wrote:
>> "The responder community does
>> not need sophisticated radiation detection equipment," says Los Alamos's
>> Benjamin Warner, "they simply need to know if a radiological situation
>> poses a threat to them."
>
>Oh really!! Did this individual ever hear the term "dose
>reconstruction"? Tell this to the Chernobyl or Tokaimura responders,
>and, tho those accountable to define what the actual doses received
>were.
>
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