RE: Emergency dose guidance

[Jim Kost <jkost@mgpi.com>]

I hope this helps but I believe in the NRC 10 CFR 20.

Jim Kost

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> In a message dated 98-07-24 09:07:24 EDT, MCNAUGHT@lanl.gov (Mike
> McNaughton)
> writes:
> 
> << 
>  I have seen guidance for doses "limits" in an emergency, written in
> several
>  DOE documents: 25 rem for lifesaving, >25 rem for lifesaving with
> fully
>  informed volunteers. I am told that similar guidance has been issued
> by
>  other US government agencies, perhaps the EPA. Can anyone tell me
> where
>  this is written? 
>   >>
> 
> See EPA "Manual of Protective Action Guides and Protective Actions for
> Nuclear
> Incidents," EPA 400-R-92-001, May 1992.
> 
> Dose Limit     Activity
>  5 rem           All
> 10 rem          Protecting valuable property, lower dose not
> practicable
> 25 rem          Lifesaving or protection of large populations, lower
> dose 
>                            not practicable
> >25 rem        Lifesaving or protection of large populations only on a
> voluntary
>                           basis to persons fully aware of the risks
> involved.
> 
> 
> Glenn
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