RE: State of MD seeks to close local firm

["Roger L. Sawyer" <RSawyer@UH.EDU>]

Are the individuals wearing dosimetry or is this "dose received" really a
fenceline dose based on 365 days/24 hrs annual total.=100 mrem ie
(hypothetical dose for someone who spent every hour at the facility boundary? 


"The exposure to any resident of Dickerson is equivalent to the dose
received by
any resident of Denver or any average flight attendant," said James D.
Dalrymple, an attorney for Neutron, referring to the higher levels of
radiation
naturally found at higher altitudes. 

What are these average values (Denver/flight attendant)?
Are residents of Dickerson receiving  Denver-like annual doses from
Neutron? I have seen estimates for Denver of three times the background at
sea level or approximately 900 millirem from cosmic/terrestial/radon
combined. (references not handy)




Roger Sawyer
Univ. of Houston
rsawyer@uh.edu

At 11:15 AM 6/16/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>My understanding is that 100 mrem (not including background) is the limit a
>member of the public should receive from all sources combined. Therefore,
>if this company is giving the receptor almost the whole 100 mrem, that
>doesn't leave much dose from other sources before the individual will
>receive a dose that exceeds the recommended limit.  
>


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