Re[2]: TLD-shielding replies

[steve.rima@DOEGJPO.COM (Steven Rima)]

     Joe,
     
     As someone with a couple of board certifications, I would never 
     question another's credibility on a public forum such as this, and I 
     would certainly not accuse them of falsifying anything via this forum. 
     If I felt that there was reason to question this calculation, I would 
     first want to review it. Then, if I still had questions or concerns, I 
     would go to that person to try to get answers as to why certain 
     assumptions were made.
     
     I would hope that we would all do the same thing, whether we're board 
     certified or not. However, just because someone has CHP (or CSP, CIH, 
     etc.) behind their name doesn't make them God, even though I've met 
     some who thought they were. If you don't agree with something like 
     this, question it whether they're certified or not, but don't start 
     accusing someone of falsifications via RADSAFE.
     
     Steven D. Rima, CHP, CSP
     Manager, Health Physics and Industrial Hygiene MACTEC-ERS, LLC
     steven.rima@doegjpo.com
     
     


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Subject: Re: TLD-shielding replies
Author:  "Archer; Joe" <archerj@wipp.carlsbad.nm.us> at Internet
Date:    9/13/99 10:25 AM


To all the people who replied that all we needed to do was put up a control 
badge. The rad material isn't stored near the rack, it sets there for 30 
minutes before being accepted into the site. The control TLD isn't real 
helpful because it would only tell you the rack dose. Since most people 
would be wearing their badges when the TLD rack gets most of it's dose, 
their TLD doses would be lower than the rack control TLD. If you tried to 
subtract the rack dose as background, most people would come up with 
negative dose values.  You would almost certainly have to use natural 
background subtraction because you can't justify the rack background 
subtraction value if you come up with a lot of negative doses. Then the 
added dose to TLDs on the rack would have to be assigned as personnel dose.
     
As I mentioned in another email is that what I was really looking for was 
comments on whether any other HPs find the falsifying of a shielding 
calculation something that can only damage the credibility of all other HPs 
or the profession in general.
     
Joe
archerj@wipp.carlsbad.nm.us
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