Circumventing dose documentation

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

> .....  some of these people who may get higher 
> doses than most staff - and therefore run a
> risk of missing job opportunities because of the accumulated
> doses - simply put their dosimeters aside at some site where
> the dose-rate would be relatively low. "Losing" the dosimeter
> could, at least hypothetically, be another method.

The above is not as prevalent as it used to be. USA power reactors 
are becoming more proactive in maintaining doses at low levels. 
You don't see the high exposures as was often the case in the 
'80s. The incentives to "lose" dose isn't as much an issue has has 
been the case. Systems are also more sophisticated. Rad 
protection and other work groups are more cognizant, observing 
when dosimetry is not worn. Real-Time Access Control Stations 
are used throughout the industry, where TLDs are scanned in at 
many check-off points. This is not to say that one can't circumvent 
the system. But with many of the controls in place, a worker's flow 
throughout the RCA, RAB and other areas within the controlled 
areas, can be determined, and documented. 





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