Re: Dirty Bomb Rescue Worker

["Roy Craft" <rcraft@wcnet.net>]

In NCRP Report No. 138, there are recommendations for dose limitation

guidance during a terrorist event involving radioactive weapons. Table 8.5,

page 109.

50 to 500 mSv. (effective dose)



Roy C. Craft, CHP

Consulting Health Physicist

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Bay City, TX 77414

rcraft@wcnet.net

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----- Original Message ----- 

From: <rob.w.powell@exxonmobil.com>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 8:28 AM

Subject: Dirty Bomb Rescue Worker





> During the last 2 years of discussions about dirty bomb response, did

> anyone see/develop a maximum exposure limit for a rescue worker?  For

> instance, a bomber explodes the bomb but the gamma source just becomes

> unshielded, it doesn't disperse to any extent.  An injured, immobile,

> bleeding employee is in the 'hot zone' near the source, and a rescue

worker

> arrives with a Geiger counter.  As he/she approaches the employee while

> reading the Geiger counter, at what reading (exposure rate) should the

> rescue worker stop after determining that his/her risk of death during the

> rescue is as great as that of the bleeding employee's death?  We've been

> assuming that the rescue worker takes 15 minutes to remove the employee

> from the hot zone (< 2 mR/hr).  This all may seem too dispassionate, but

we

> have guidance about rescuing employees who have been electrically shocked,

> been overcome with gases, etc.

>

>

>

> -Rob Powell

> ExxonMobil

> Safety, Health, & Environment

>

>

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