Re[2]: calculation of dose to biota

[ej_antonio@ccmail.pnl.gov]

     RADSAFERs:
     Let me pose the same question in a slightly different way:
     
     If the U.S. Department of Energy just so happened to pass a rule, 
     let's say it would be called 10 CFR 834, and in that rule there 
     was a section on dose rate limits for terrestrial and aquatic 
     biota which were set at 1 rad per day, then would a person 
     calculating internal alpha doses to these nonhuman biota increase 
     that portion of the absorbed dose by a factor of 20 to account 
     for the differences in cellular damage caused by the alphas 
     relative to gamma photons or beta particles, like the IAEA 
     suggested in Technical report series 332 and like the NCRP did in 
     report 109?
     Thanks in advance for responding.
     
     Ernest Antonio
     Research Scientist
     Pacific Northwest National Lab