Personnel Contaminations

[Mike Lantz <mlantz33@cybertrails.com>]

As usual, I agree completely with Sandy Perle.  For some of your facilities, activity on the bottom of a shoe is a personnel contamination event, but any activity on scrubs is not??  It is facility-related radioactivity at the final barrier to the unrestricted area.  This detected activity needs to be tracked and trended for many reasons.

For those sites that have utilized such bean-counting reasoning as this to preclude the recording of personnel contaminations, be aware that EPRI, INPO, and the NRC are at this very moment looking into a more consistent method. 

  

Mike Lantz
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