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RE: FW: Checked Baggage X-Ray Exposures
Such
applications are in R&D stage at present...suffice it to say that, unless
you work for us, or someone like us, your dosimeter is not likely to experience
this sort of exposure - yet.
Your
film is not necessarily safe even with the carry-on scanners. The best bet
for camera film is a lead bag, carry-on, and let 'em hand search it. Kodak
& Fuji sites have a discussion of this
- aha
-
NEVER allow camera film to go through with your check luggage.
"Auld, Andrew H @SS" <andrew.auld@ss.l-3com.com>
wrote:
Further
to this partiuclar subject of inquiry - I require all my field
techs,
engineers, etc. to carry their dosimeters on their person, not in
their
baggage. Nine times out of ten you'll make it thru the metal gate
with
it, or can negotiate it around the x-ray machine. If not, the
carry-on
units (for the time being) are much less energetic than the
checked baggage
CT scanners, so the accumulated exposure is
less.
I also have folks who have to travel with their dosimeters
(meaning those
who's occupational exposure is not solely in the
work-place) keep a
travel-log and diary of "unusual" circumstances - like
their dosimeters went
thru a scanner, they flew to Singapore (remembering
that enough time in the
air can class one as a radiation worker - and if
you're concerned about
exposure of all types, well, your little DNA
strands aren't making decisions
as to just where this or that particular
x-ray actually came from, is it?)
- just my $0.02 -
Andrew H.
Auld; EH&S Coordinator
L-3 Communications Security & Detection
Systems
2005 Gandy Blvd N Suite 600
St. Petersburg FL
33702-2166
(727) 369-4225 Direct
(727) 744-4090
Mobile
www.dsxray.com or www.L-3Com.com
"In God We Trust, Everyone
Else We X-ray."
-----Original Message-----
From: Roy A.
Parker [mailto:royaparker@COMPUSERVE.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003
11:34 AM
To: RADSAFE
Subject: Checked Baggage X-Ray
Exposures
Is there any data on exposures received by personnel
monitoring badges,
film, TLD, and/or OSL, that have been in airline
checked baggage which have
been x-rayed (not carry on bags thorough the
concourse screening units).
Roy A. Parker,
Ph.D.
roy@royparker.org
Tel: 225-924-1473
Fax:
225-924-4269
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