Visitor Procedures

["Eric N. Billingsley" <ericnb@WPI.EDU>]

We were recently inspected by American Nuclear Insurers and they were
very interested in how we "train" any visitors that come into the
reactor facility.  

Background:
	Our facility consists of an office and a large room with two levels
that houses the reactor, the console and all experimental and classroom
facilities.  The reactor is an open pool 10kW reactor and at full power
the highest dose rate is approximately 25 mrem/hr at the surface of the
water and about 18 mrem/hr where a visitor would stand and look into the
reactor.  Of course, we usually don't even have the reactor running and
the rate is approximately equal to background levels.

Our current plan:
	The insurer requires that we have every visitor sign in showing their
(name, affiliation, date).  We will do that of course, and when the
reactor is in operation above 1kW (5mrem/hr is seen at 2kW) we will
issue one dosimeter to each group and at the end of the tour it will be
read and recorded by a member of the reactor facility staff.  The real
pain of all of this is that we often participate in our "Open House"
here at WPI and also our Freshman orientation by giving quick 5-10
minute tours.  We are worried that by the time they all sign the piece
of paper they will have to leave.

Question:
	Does this sound reasonable to everyone out there and do you think it
should be reasonable for an insurer?  What do you do?  How do you
"train" your visistors?  What type of information do you give them?
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