RE: ALARA

["Regis A. Greenwood" <ragreenwood@tol-ed.com>]

In today's competitive and deregulating utility world, planning a job to save time etc. essentially means that your utility may survive to plan jobs next year. Survival, not compulsory ALARA, should be the incentive to do jobs right the first time. 

I agree with Al, there is something strange about putting effort and manpower into reducing dose from 20 person millirem to 18 person millirem per task.

Regis A.Greenwood, C H P
greenwood@physicist.net

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From: 	RON L. SHEPHERD[SMTP:SHEPHRL@GWSMTP.NU.COM]
Sent: 	Wednesday, December 10, 1997 1:56 AM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	ALARA


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I have noticed this theme that ALARA is very expensive and not worth the
bother.

Initially, in the power industry, we thought the same until we realized that
ALARA could actually SAVE US MONEY!!  What some of us came to realize is that
dose is directly tied to money by a common factor.....time.  If we plan and
execute tasks with fewer/no glitches we save time which also saves dose and
money.

So I am unclear as to what portion of the rad world is adversely affected by
ALARA and thought you or others wouldn't mind letting us know what's going
on???

Thanks in advance

Ron Shepherd
SHEPHRL@GWSMTP.NU.COM