RE: Is Two Too Many?

["Goff, Tom" <gofft@wipp.carlsbad.nm.us>]

I think the phrase that is most upsetting is "All the time".  In fact the
true meaning of this is that you should wear 2 dosimeters whenever in an
area where you could be exposed to radiation.  The second dosimeter is
usually direct reading and the summary of all the direct readings can be
used if the primary dosimeter is lost or damaged.  This is true even if the
primary dosimeter is an electronic personnel dosimeter.  I'm surprised Sandy
Perle and/or Mike Lantz are not responding to this.

Tom Goff
WIPP Radiological Engineering
(505) 234-8861
(fax)  234-6027
e-mail  GoffT@WIPP.Carlsbad.NM.US
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Granberg [mailto:dgranber@net-link.net]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 2:38 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Is Two Too Many?



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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