Open AccessRadiological Dose Assessment - Nonuniform Skin Dose, Radioactive Skin Contamination, and Multiple Dosimetry
Author(s) -
W.C. Inkret,
M. E. Schillaci
Publication year - 1999
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/9447
Subject(s) - dosimeter , radiological weapon , radioactive contamination , contamination , dosimetry , radionuclide , absorbed dose , nuclear medicine , effective dose (radiation) , medical physics , radiochemistry , environmental science , medicine , physics , chemistry , nuclear physics , ecology , biology
Radioactive skin contamination with {beta}- and {gamma}-emitting radionuclides may result in biologically significant absorbed doses to the skin. A specific exposure scenario of interest is a nonuniform skin dose delivered by {beta}- and {gamma}-emissions from radioactive skin contamination. The United States Department of Energy requires a formal evaluation and reporting of nonuniform skin doses. The United States Department of Energy also requires specific, formal procedures for evaluating the results from the placement or use of multiple dosimeters. Action levels relative to potential absorbed doses for the contamination survey instrumentation in use at Los Alamos and formal procedures for evaluating nonuniform skin doses and multiple dosimeters are developed and presented here