Re[2]: ALARA

[Vincent.King@DOEGJPO.COM (Vincent King)]

     You're right.  A correctly performed ALARA analysis of a task would 
     give you a target dose value that is optimum for that operation.  
     If your average dose per worker is reasonably near this target when 
     you perform the task, you have satisfied ALARA; if they are 
     significantly above OR BELOW this target value, you have not. Just 
     reducing doses is not ALARA.
     
     Vincent King
     vincent.king@doegjpo.com 


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Subject: Re: ALARA
Author:  hoover@sip-pmu.slavutich.kiev.ua at Internet
Date:    4/4/00 2:42 AM


Maybe it is just me, but I sure thought that ALARA is a lot more than just 
dose minimization.  What happened to cost-benefit? 


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