Re[2]: High Altitiude Exposures

[sandy_perle@email.fpl.com]

     NO, I am not suggesting that we actually monitor patient dose received 
     from diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. I was inadequately making a 
     statement that environmental exposure, which should remain 
     non-regulated, is generally much lower than exposures given to the 
     general public routinely as part of medical treatment. I should have 
     just stopped after my first two statements, and added the fact that 
     dosimetry operations "subtract" natural background, be it local 
     background and/or transit dose from dosimeters. We don't account for 
     natural background. Licensees are only accountable for assessing dose 
     to their employees received from radioactive material utilized in 
     their operations or maintenance activities. 
     
     Hope this clarifies my previous #3 statement.
     
     Sandy Perle
     Supervisor Health Physics
     Florida Power and Light Company
     Nuclear Division
     
     (407) 694-4219 Office
     (407) 694-3706 Fax
     
     sandy_perle@email.fpl.com
     
     HomePage: http://www.lookup.com/homepages/54398/home.html


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Subject: Re: High Altitiude Exposures
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet-Mail
Date:    12/13/95 11:26 AM


Sandy,
     
Hope you don't really mean what you said in item #3.  
>     
>     3. I'd be more interested in the general public maintaining their      
>        exposure received from diagnostic or more importantly from          
>        therapeutic procedures.
>