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Tritium Dose Conversion Factor Confusion
Fellow Radsafers
I am pondering the numbers used for Dose Conversion Factors for
airborne exposure to Tritiated Water.
ICRP-30 Part 1 pg 65 states that it includes allowance for
the absorption through skin.
Using the numbers quoted there I "backcalculate" a DCF
of about 6.2 E-5 rem/uCi
However, in ICRP 68 pg 75
The corresponding number for tritiated water is
1.8E-11 Sv/Bq or about 6.6 E-5 rem/uCi.
But this table states that skin absorption is NOT accounted for.
Can anyone clear this up for me ?
I would expect the ICRP 68 value to be about 40%
smaller if skin absorption has not been included.
James Presley
ATOMCON/I=J/S=PRESLEY/O=AECB.CCEA@MHS.ATTMAIL.COM