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RE: Personal contamination goals
Performance metrics are really all about ranking yourself against your
peers. Those who aren't getting better are falling behind. Plants with
good metrics get good bonuses, plants with bad metrics have a higher
turnover of personnel...
I think it was INPO and the NRC that started all of the ranking business.
Plants started to wise up and collect data to see where they measured up
before they were assessed. Nobody likes unexpected embarrassing comments at
an INPO or NRC assessment exit. Now days many of the metrics are "required"
as performance indicators by the NRC. The level of attention applied to a
licensee is essentially dictated by the performance metrics generated by the
licensee.
Other types of users of rad material probably just haven't lived under the
level of scrutiny that the power industry does and probably doen't find
performance metrics of critical importance.
Glen Vickers
Nuclear Power HP
glen.vickers@exeloncorp.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lester Slaback [SMTP:Lester.Slaback@NIST.GOV]
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:46 AM
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> Subject: re: Personal contamination goals
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> Why are such criteria separate and distinct from total exposure?
> Are there separate microrem whole body exposure goals and separate
> millirem extremity goals, shallow dose goals, etc? <br>
> Are skin exposures from contamination the dominant mode of radiation
> exposure at power plants?<br>
> Or is this just a residue of pre-1994 regulations where internal exposure
> and contamination were excessively controlled regardless of external
> exposure?<br>
> Seriously, are there significant radiation exposure issues involved (not
> counting hot particles) or is this simply an ALARA/cleanliness
> issue?<br>
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> <font color="#00FFFF">Disclaimer: the above are the personal
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> position of NIST, the U.S. government, or anyone else who might think
> that they are in a position of authority. <br>
> </font><font color="#800000">Lester Slaback, Jr.
> [Lester.Slaback@NIST.GOV] <br>
> NBSR Health Physics <br>
> Center for Neutron Research <br>
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