RE: Definitions of Low Dose/Doserate

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 07:49 31.07.1998 -0500, you wrote:
>> Federal Guidance Report 13 - Part 1, Interim Version (EPA 402-R-97-014;
>> January 1998): ". . . l. . . low dose rates, defined as dose rates less
>> than 0.1 mGy min^-1
>	are you sure of your units? 0 .1 milliGray per minute (6 mGy/hr= 600
>mrad/hr) seems a little high for a low dose rate.
>
>> Luke McCormick, 
>> mccormickl@hq.hqusareur.army.mil

I agree, it is impossible to call 5 256 rad/y (!!!!!!!) a low dose rate,
whatever philosophy about "high" and "low" one adheres.

Franz


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