Re[2]: cpm conversion to mrem/hr

[BRZGV@ccmail.ceco.com]

     Please attempt to make a positive contribution along with your 
     whining.  Nobody likes to only listen to negative commentary.
     
     I could see how such tables could be derrived with certain boundary 
     conditions.  You would certainly need to know your energy spectrum, 
     probe efficiency, etc., but I would certainly think a table or 
     nomograph could be constructed.  I would be interested in looking at 
     such a table and boundary conditions myself.
     
     Tables and graphs are excellent user aids for those who work with 
     radiation.  Nomographs are, or were about 5 years ago, the primary 
     method of determining nuclear, biological, and chemical hazards in the 
     U.S. military (probably all NATO countries).  Calculations could be 
     made by anyone with the least bit of common sense.  The Rad Health 
     Handbook also seems to be constructed almost entirely of tables, 
     graphs, and nomographs.  When it is all said and done, I guess all 
     that really matters is that we end up with the right answer and it 
     really doesn't matter how you obtain it.
     
     
     Sincerely
     Glen Vickers


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Subject: Re: cpm conversion to mrem/hr
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at INTERNET
Date:    8/28/96 2:43 PM


At 13:49 28.08.1996 -0500, you wrote:
>I was looking through some x-ray diffraction reports and ran across 
>some conversion figure converting cpm from a GM to mR/hr or mrem/hr.  I 
>can't remember where I saw it.  Anyone no what it is?
>
>David Harrison
>DHARRISON@DOE.LANL.GOV
>==========================================================================
     
I cannot believe that you saw anything like this, because the conversion is 
dependent on your GM, on the energy of the radiation and probably a couple 
of other conditions. In fact calibration would have to be done individually. 
     
Is this the expertise which DOE employees have?
     
Anybody who wants to accuse me of the typical European arrogancy is 
requested to refrain from it. I had so many positive responses on my 
sometimes sarcastic comments to my private e-mail that I do not care for the 
one or two who do not like it. 
     
Instead I would recommend that you Americans would do something to rise the 
average scientific level of your health physics people. I know that you have 
a large number of excellent experts, which are among the best in the world 
and I am honoured to know some of these personally. But this is not enough 
for everyday life. 
     
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