Re: Re[2]: MONITORING UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER PERSONNEL

[lambert@HAL.HAHNEMANN.EDU]

On Tue, 30 Apr 1996 sandy_perle@email.fpl.com wrote:

>      Your nuclear medicine department most surely must ensure that no 
>      individual of the public has the potential to exceed the 100 mrem in a 
>      year from your licensed material. So, with that in mind, you don't 
>      need to provide individual monitoring to prove that you remained 
>      within regulatory limits, but must provide other methodologies to 
>      demonstrate that nobody can be exposed in excess of the limits, using 
>      area badges and occupancy factors as an example.
      
No, this is not true.  The NRC has stated that this does not apply to 
patients released (and one can argue releasable) in accordance with 10 CFR 
35.75.  

But what I don't understand is why this logic does not apply to 
unmonitored workers.  That is what the original question asked.  

Kent Lambert
LAMBERT@hal.hahnemann.edu

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