Re: Transport Index

["J. J. Rozental" <josrozen@netmedia.net.il>]

Considering that the  country has no National Regulation is better to use an
International Regulation,  as IAEA. For your specific question do the following:

Look at the Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive material,
ST-1, IAEA 1996 

GO TO para. 526 page 48 for the definition and procedures of Transport Index
(TI) steps (a), (b) and (c) 
the step (c) will give your specific answer:
"The value determined in steps (a) and (b) shall be rounded up to the first
decimal place (e.g. 1.13 becomes 1.2, except that a value of 0.05 or less
may be considered zero)
GO TO  TABLE VI page 50, to consider the Multiplication factors for large
dimension loads and 
GO TO para. 527 for the sum of TI

J. J. Rozental
josrozen@netmedia.net.il
Israel

At 10:04 AM 2/2/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Hello everyone:
>
>As I recall from inspecting the radioactive (incoming) to the campus while
>I was working years back, the transport index was recorded as the actual
>number of exposure at distance of one meter from the pacakage.  However,
>someone was saying otherwise where the transport index is reported as a
>whole number with no fraction.  would any one please comment on this from
>actual experience, and what are the units.  
>
>Any help in answering those questions is appreciated.
>
>
>M.Haleem
>
> 
>
>
>
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