[ RadSafe ] radsafe, exposure dose

[Bernard Cohen]

Your room is about 100 cubic meters. For that, ICRP-30 gives doses in 
10^-15 Sv/hr per Bq/m^3 as follows: Gonads-3.1,  breast -1.6, R marrow 
-1.6, lungs - 1.2, bone surf - 0.43, st wall - 0.58, kidneys - 0.54, 
liver - 0.51, spleen - 0.61, adrenals - 0.53,

conrad wrote:

> you will, of course, have to correct for the finite size of the room, 
> depending on the isotope this correction may be significant; I could 
> put you in touch with a consultant who could do a professional 
> analysis for you, unless of course Dr. Cohen wants to do it.  if you 
> dont have the icrp 30 docs, fgr reports from epa are free from the web 
> site.
>
> Conrad Sherman
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Cohen" <blc+ at pitt.edu>
> To: "Dora Gosen" <Dora.Gosen at specialdevices.com>
> Cc: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] radsafe, exposure dose
>
>
>> The info you want is on page 59 of ICRP-30. It gives the dose in 
>> Sv/hr per Bq/m^3 for exposures to various bo
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> If you dont have icrp dy organs in rooms of various
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>> sizes and in a semi-infinite cloud. The worst case is for the last of 
>> these, giving doses to various organs in the range 2 to7 x 10^-14
>>
>> Dora Gosen wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> I need someone to help me solve this problem.  My company is trying to
>>> find out what the exposure dangers will be from a worst case scenario.
>>> Therefore, they want to know how many rems employees are exposed to if
>>> they're exposed to 10 curies of Krypton 85 for 10 minutes.  The
>>> ventilation system in that machine is one that is connected directly to
>>> the machine and vents to the outside. The volume of the room where the
>>> machine is: 3,510 cubic feet.  Please let me know how you came to such
>>> data, the formula.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Dora Gosen
>>>
>>>
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