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RE: Dosimeters and airport security



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While it may seem like a nice, conservative idea to be monitored by both your home and away facility I do not think it is a good practice.  At least not with your official dose of record dosimeter. The occupational dose is monitored, recorded and reported on a facility basis.  You then need to sum doses reported from various facilities.  It wouldn't make any real difference if you didn't get any real dose, but what happens when you wear both badges and they both show measurable dose? Both facilities would read the badges, report the dose, you'd get it  reported by both facilities.   If you really want your own number, I suppose you could get a supplemental badge from your home site and wear that for unofficial purposes.
 
If you need more, here is a quote from DOE-STD-1098-99:
 
"Individuals should not wear dosimeters issued by their resident facilites while being monitored by a dosimeter at another facility unless authorized by the radiological control manager or designee.  Individuals should not expose their dosimeters to security X-ray devices, excessive heat, or medical sources of radiation." Chapter 5, Part I Section 511
 

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Stanford Dosimetry
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Morgan
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:29 AM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Dosimeters and airport security

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 x-ray screening machine?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Thomas L. Morgan, PhD

Director, Health Physics

Radiation Safety Officer

Isotope Products Laboratories

661-309-1033 (voice)

661-257-8303 (fax)