Re: $/person-rem

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

>      The basis for 
>      most of our $10,000/person-rem figure were the extra resources 
>      required to bring in a contract employee, train him/her, equip 
>      with dosimeters, provide protective clothing, waste disposal, 
>      technician job coverage/surveys, etc.  Take all that into 
>      account, make some assumptions for how much work somebody can do and
>      what their salaries/benefit costs are, and presto: you arrive at a
>      figure around $10,000/person-rem.  This was acceptable to the
>      bean-counters (at least it was nine years ago).

For many ALARA considerations, engineering controls would be 
the best alternative to reduce dose. These associated costs are 
generally higher than the $10,000.person-rem value used (when I 
was at FPL).

As Eric points out in his cost basis, much of the cost is resource 
related. What is ironic is that in a majority of the dose reduction 
projects, the method to do so was to bring in MANY more bodies, 
to which we provided the opportunity to receive more dose! Perhaps 
this can be justified by giving more to less to ensure less is 
received by more in the future. But then again...


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