Fwd: Re: Dosimeters and airport security

["Judith M. Clark" <jmclark@LANL.GOV>]

Title: Fwd: Re: Dosimeters and airport security

> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:47:47 -0700
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> To: Tom Morgan <tmorgan@ISOTOPEPRODUCTS.COM>
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> From: "Judith M. Clark" <jmclark@lanl.gov>
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> Subject: Re: Dosimeters and airport security
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> At Los Alamos National Laboratory we
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> instruct employees not to take their LANL dosimeter with them on
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> travel to another DOE facility.  The facility being visited
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> should provide the visitor with a visitor's badge.  They are
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> required to send their report back within 30 days regarding the dose
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> received during the visit.

> J. Margo Clark, Ph.D.

>

>

> > Can anyone
> >
> > address the issue of dosimeters and airport security?  If a
> >
> > radiation worker with a dosimeter wants to travel on an airliner to
> >
> > visit another facility, should he/she take their own dosimeter with
> >
> > them?  Or, should they use the facility's visitor badge? 
> >
> > Any idea what dose might be expected if the dosimeter goes through the
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> > x-ray screening machine?
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> >  
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> > Thanks in
> >
> > advance.
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> >  
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> > Thomas L.
> >
> > Morgan, PhD
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> > Director,
> >
> > Health Physics
>
> > Radiation
> >
> > Safety Officer
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> > Isotope
> >
> > Products Laboratories
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> > 661-309-1033
> >
> > (voice)
>
> > 661-257-8303
> >
> > (fax)
>
> >

--
J. Margo Clark, Ph.D.
Performance Surety Division
Health, Safety, and Radiation Protection Division
MS K-483
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM  87545
(505) 665-3634
FAX (505) 667-9726