Re: Is Two Too Many?

["Dick Granberg" <dgranber@net-link.net>]

Mike Fuller asked:
On May 25, 2000, American Nuclear Insurers revised its External
> Dosimetry Criteria recommending that insureds place
>
> TWO DOSIMETERS ON EVERONE LIKELY TO EXCEED 100MREM PER YEAR - ALL THE
> TIME.
>
> One dosimeter is called the Dosimeter of Legal Record (DLR) - a NAVLP
> Device.  The other is called a backup dosimeter - perhaps an SRPD.
>
> Their purpose is to establish and air tight defense in any personal
> injury case that might arise our of a person's expsoure to radiation.
>
>  My question is:  Is anyone out there already doing this?

Mike;

I believe that, among other facilities, essentially every nuclear power
plant in the U.S. already meets this criterion, or at least something very
close.

Dick Granberg
AEP/ D.C. Cook Nuclear Plant
rdgranberg@aep.com

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