DOT vs NRC/DOE Regs

[rodney_bauman@wssrap-host.wssrap.com]

There are other similar situations.  For example, load a truck with radwaste
(LSA, exclusive use shipment).  The truck's external dose rates are >5 mrem/hr
at 30 cm, yet less than 200 mrem/hr on contact and less than 10 mrem/hr at 2
meters - OK to ship.  Until the shipment is in progress, 10 CFR 20 and 835
requires the immediate area to be posted and controlled as a "Radiation Area" 
Now, watch your workers' reactions when you pull down your rad-ropes and signs
in order to let the truck leave site and go to Burger King for lunch, while on
its way out of town.

Part of being a Health Physicist, as far as I can tell, is continual
explanation/justification to the workers for acts which appear to have no
logical basis, however usually do.  Discrepancies between applicable regulations
makes public education that much harder.


Rodney Bauman, CHP, RRPT
Weldon Spring Site

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