Re: Powernet: ILLINOIS RADIOGRAPHER RECEIVED 15 SIEVERT (1,500 REM)TOHIS LO...

[William V Lipton <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM>]

See 10 CFR 34.47, "Personnel monitoring":  "The licensee may not permit

any individual to act as a radiographer or a radiographer's assistant unless,

at all times during radiographic operations, each individual wears, on

the trunk of the body, a direct reading dosimeter, an operating alarming

dosimeter, and a personnel dosimeter that is processed and evaluated by

an accredited National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Protram (NVLAP)

processor..."  The PNO for this incident states.  "He then saw

that his survey instrument showed an off-scale high reading and his alarming

rate meter was inoperable because of a low battery..."

The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.

Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com

AndrewsJP@AOL.COM wrote:

Why Oh Why don't radiographers use chirpers?  These little devices PREVENT this kind of accident.
 
 

John Andrews
Knoxville, Tennessee