RE: When do you switch from a frisker to a dose ratemeter??

["Krzesniak, Michael F" <krzesniak@atd.crane.navy.mil>]

What are your free release limits?

> 	>At what level (dpm) do you switch from using a contamination survey
> 	>instrument to a doserate meter to record results?
> It's not so much at what rate do I switch, but what information I want. I
> consider information from count rate meters vs. doserate meters to be
> answering different questions (let's not get into dpm to doserate
> conversions). The count rate meter answers "Is it there?"  and "Is it
> above
> the free release limits?" while the doserate meter answers "What's the
> doserate here?"
> 
> 
Michael Krzesniak
NAVSURFWARCENDIV
Code 6051, B-3059
Crane IN 47525-5001

812/854-6086
krzesniak@atd.crane.navy.mil

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