RE: Estimate your radiation dose

["Bauman, Rodney L. (84U) " <84u@BECHTELJACOBS.ORG>]

It's been my experience that, due to shielding, a nearby individual would

probably reduce your overall exposure to external background gamma

radiation.  This becomes apparent while working around large gamma-sensitive

detectors (such as Tool Monitors).  The background count rate is usually

lower when somebody is standing in front of the unit.



Rodney Bauman

Bechtel Jacobs Company, LLC

Project Health Physicist

ETTP and Y-12 Waste Operations

Y-12 Plant Bldg. 9624, MS 8222

Voice: 865.241.5344

Pager: 865.417.0561

Fax: 865.576.3946

84u@bechteljacobs.org



> -----Original Message-----

> From:	Bjorn Cedervall [SMTP:bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM]

> Sent:	Friday, April 27, 2001 10:45 AM

> To:	mcnaught@LANL.GOV; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject:	Re: Estimate your radiation dose/Bed question

> 

> >I notice the UMich radinfo page http://www.umich.edu/~radinfo/ has a link

> 

> >to "estimate your radiation dose" at the URL:

> http://newnet.lanl.gov/main.htm . This page was written by a student a few

> 

> years ago.

> -----------------

> The program asks whether you share bed with someone. This is tricky - I 

> recall that we discussed this earlier - that a second person is not only a

> 

> source of radioactivity but also a shield. The bottom line may not 

> necessarily be "more dose when you sleep with someone".

> 

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