Re[2]: calculation of dose to biota

[mcnaught@lanl.gov (Mike McNaughton)]

>     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

Am I too literal minded to be a lawyer?  If the law says "rad" (not "rem"),
it means 0.01 joules/kg, and neither a QF nor an RBE is relevant.

"Shlala gashle" (Zulu greeting, meaning "Stay safe")
mike (mcnaught@LANL.GOV)