RE: Treatment of Contaminated Personnel

["Ryder, R (Roy)" <R.RYDER@dl.ac.uk>]

People should be wary of this procedure. 12 secs in 1000r/h gives a dose of
3.3 R. in an emergency this is not life threatening but it should not be
extended just to get a measurement of the dose rate.

Roy Ryder
Daresbury Laboratory

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert A Scott [mailto:bobscottchp@juno.com]
Sent: 03 March 1999 14:36
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Treatment of Contaminated Personnel


A suggestion:  Switch to integrate mode, count for 12 seconds, multiply
the result by 300 to give you exposure rate per hour.

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:29:46 -0600 (CST) David.S.Villicana@ucm.com writes:
>The difficulty is: there is no instrument to measure dose rates >1000 
>R/h.
>Since the value is unknown, you cannot estimate a stay time. In an 
>official
>procedure, I think the advice should be: if your instrument is off 
>scale,
>back away.
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