Re: Asking for opinions

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

The fact that there is or is not a potential dose in the area still 
requires that an appropriate number of Control Badges be placed 
throughout the area of concern. If there are different dose values 
for the various Control Badges, the various racks may need to be 
processed with different Control Badge subtraction.

If the shielding is not valid, and the TLDs do in fact receive 20 to 
40 mrem background due to operations, and appropriate Controls are 
not placed, false dose may be assigned to the worker. I'd also bet 
that this potentially false dose would end up biting you later in a 
litigation claim .. and try to explain the Controls used (not used), 
shielding, and the fact that staff dosimeters were maintained in an 
area where there was a high potential to receive semi-continual 
exposure from operations within the facility.

Sandy Perle
E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net 
Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1205

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the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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