High Altitude Exposures thread - comments applicable globally

[lambert@HAL.HAHNEMANN.EDU]

This is very true and hopefully has been expressed to the NRC in their 
proposed decommissioning 59 FR 43200 (at least I think and hope it's still
a proposed regulation).  See proposed 10 CFR 20.1404 which states that a 
site will be considered acceptable for unrestricted use if:

(a) the residual radioactivity is distinguishable from background but will 
not result in a TEDE ... in excess of 15 mrem (yes, I'm a units 
traditionalist) 
                            AND

(b) the residual radioactivity has been reduced to levels that are ALARA.

On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Bob Flood wrote:
> 
> The problem with the application of the ALARA philosophy in the abseence of
> a de minimus value is simple: there is no number that cannot be divided by
> ten.


Kent Lambert
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