Re: Tritium Dose Conversion Factor Confusion

["EMIL M.KERREMBAEV" <EKERREMBAEV@r06.tdh.state.tx.us>]

I would like to add my portion in this discussion,

I believe that the quality factor for tritium beta's
will be changed "officially" in the sooner future from 1 to 1.5 or 1.2
Question: How it will affect on CEDE?
I doubt that only simple multiplication on 1.5 there will do it all.

Emil Kerrembaev. 


> Date sent:      Wed, 17 Jan 96 08:15:11 -0600
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> From:           "Scott O. Schwahn" <schwahn@CEBAF.GOV>
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> Subject:        Re: Tritium Dose Conversion Factor Confusion

> To continue a little about the tritiated water Dose Conversion Factors, 
> 
> I wish I had ICRP-30 sitting in front of me, but how is it possible that the
> numbers you found include absorption through the skin?  Would not the units
> somehow have to be in terms of rem/uCi-m^3 of water or air, rather than just
> rem/uCi (which I assume is intake)?
> 
> By the way, the units I quoted last were CEDE (of course).
> 
> Scott O. Schwahn, CHP
> Operational Health Physicist
> Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
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