Re: lifetime TEDE limit

[Alan Watts <wattsa@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>]

Fellow radsafers,

We all know that the occupational TEDE (Total Effective Dose Equivalent)
limit for radiation workers is 5000 mrem/yr.  Is there an accumulated (over
several years), upper TEDE limit (life time limit) that would prevent one
from working with/around radioactivity?

Alan Watts
wattsa@ohiou.edu


>Radsafers,
>
>Landauer is promoting a new Al(2)O(3) personnel monitoring badge which they
>claim will see 1 mrem and it will be reported.  Does any other Radsafers feel
>uncomfortable with this new lower sensitivity?  It appears capable of creating
>new problems with exposed personnel who have never received an exposure and
>now they will see the
>1 to 9 mrems on their monthhly reports rather than the "m" and 12x this on
>their yearly report.
>
>
>Bob Ryan
>ryanchp@aol.com
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