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Re: Cost of Radiation Exposure

There are a number of publications that have over the years discussed the
monetization of a unit of dose, including several peer reviewed
publications,  regulations (cf. 10CFR50 Appendix I) and the DOE guidance
documents on ALARA.

Ron Kathren
-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Weiss <weiss@ki.comcity.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Monday, August 23, 1999 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: Cost of Radiation Exposure


>JAMES MCEWEN schrieb:
>
>         Can someone direct me to a source of information on the dollar
cost
>      (to society or a business)for an exposure of a man Rad.  General
>      information like "my company uses X dollars per man Rad" would be
nice
>      to know, but an official document would move things along a lot
>      better.
>
>
>In an earlier life I used to balance the number of expected radiation
>victims (laugh at it or donīt) against those of trivial working
>accidents to be expected in the course of the protecting countermeasure.
>Based on the statistics of the german social insurences you come to the
>order of magnitude of 500,000 $ per man-rem as an adequate cost of a
>dose-saving project, >if you take LNT as base of your calculation<.
>Considering a threshold dose, hormetic effects or similar models
>obviously lower the cost of a man-rem, depending on the dose-rate and
>the dose per involved person.
>
>Just my opinion, which not necessarily is that of my company or our
>customers.
>
>---
>Harald Weiss (weiss@ki.comcity.de)
>Preetzer Strasse 263, D-24147 Kiel
>..
>
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