Re: What is the average U.S. occupational dose?

[Richard Smart <R.Smart@unsw.edu.au>]

At 05:53 PM 2.12.96 -0600, Bruce Pickett wrote:
> I am in need of some information in a hurry (in a matter of hours or less).
> The director of my division will be talking soon with the one of the company's
> vice-presidents and has asked us to supply him with this information:
>
>  "What is the average occupational dose in the United States?"
>
> Can anyone provide me with this information or a reference where I can find
> it?
>

Annex D "Occupational Radiation Exposures" of the UNSCEAR 1993 Report gives
the following information for the USA for the period 1985-1989:

from uranium mining - 3.46 mSv/monitored worker
from uranium milling & extraction - 0.95 mSv/monitored worker
from uranium enrichment - 0.12 mSv/monitored worker
from fuel fabrication - 0.45 mSv/monitored worker
at reactors - 2.06 mSv/monitored worker
from defence activities - 0.60 mSv/monitored worker
from industrial uses other than nuclear fuel cycle - 0.55 mSv/monitored worker
from medical use - 0.38 mSv/monitored worker

regards


Richard Smart PhD
Department of Nuclear Medicine
St. George Hospital
Kogarah, NSW 2217
Australia
Tel:61 2 9350 3112
Fax:61 2 9350 3991
Email:R.Smart@unsw.edu.au