where to wear a dosimeter (Bernie's comments)

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>]

> Wearing a radiation badge outside the apron would have shut down

> my research program. I see no reason for wearing a badge there; the

> purpose is to protect the body, so we should measure the exposure to

> the body.



I agree. And, the body is defined in the regulations as the highest 

area where the whole body dose is, prior to the current revised 

10CFR20.101(a), and, the whole body was defined as "whole body, head 

and trunk, active blood forming organs, lens of eye or gonads."  

Therefore, if the highest dose was to the head, then the dosimeter is 

required to be worn there. Doesn't anyone remember the root cause for 

mulitbadging back in the early 80s?  San Onofre .. SG Jumpers NOT 

wearing a TLD on the head, to measure the highest dose.







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