Re: Personnel Contamination Monitor

[Kurt <kurtd@locomp.net>]

Why yes I would. We have bought bigger sources (about 7000dpm) and raised our
RDA. This has done away with a lot of our false alarms. Yes. We are still taking
our hard hats out of the RCA. Why I don't know, but we are!!!!!!

"Migliore, Charles W" wrote:

> Believe me, there are still plenty of Radon alarms still, even with the
> PCM-2. It does help a lot though. Still, I wiped off quite a few hardhats
> during my time there this past year.... BTW you should know better than to
> wear polyester into a nuc plant! I left there 3 mo ago, Kurt would know
> better if any more progress has been made.
>
> Charles Migliore RRPT
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sandy Perle [SMTP:sandyfl@earthlink.net]
> > Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 2:48 PM
> > To:   Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject:      RE: Personnel Contamination Monitor
> >
> > > I like the Eberline PCM-2 they use at Clinton Power Station, which has a
> > > built-in Radon discriminator. This eliminates a lot of false alarms from
> > > Radon. They are more expensive than the PCM-1x though.
> >
> > This is an improvement of the system at Clinton since I performed a
> > NVLAP on-site assessment there a few years ago. At that time, my
> > polyester pants kept setting off the alarm, and I couldn't get out of
> > the RCB. After taking a lot of tape and pulling all areas of the
> > pants, the system stopped alarming. I thought they were attempting to
> > keep me from leaving the area, reducing the time I had to assess, but
> > they didn't know I wasn't leaving until the next morning ;)
> >
> > Sandy Perle
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