radiological conditions

[Brett LaVigne]

Those little surprises make the job fun as long as you can keep control and don't end up on the wrong side of the table during the post job breifings. 

For sure.

[Already Gone]

Beercourt, where were you 20 years ago when I was taking those hot smears?  I couldn't agree with you more.  Makes me wonder why we did the things we did for so long and no one asked "why".  There's no telling how much dose my hands have and I'm sure there's more than one tech out there that's wondered what their actual extremity dose is.  It's good to see that there's folks in the industry that are actually beginning to insert conscious thought into the process rather than blindly collecting data for the sake of collecting data.

I was taking those smears right along with you and everyone else.
Yeah, I thought it was kinda cool to get smears that you had to read with a teletektor.

I guess I just got inquisitive as I got older, but Brett is right -- you do what they tell you, even if you know it doesn't make sense because that is how we make our money.

[SloGlo]

 
   ...the yard was peach...

watt with all the radon in that region, 10 micro r duzzent seem out of place.  especially if yer talking about the back yard, the hill side of the plant.  wood ant take much of an atmospheric inversion to generate that level ~ 1 meter from the ground.

[wlrun3@aol.com]

watt with all the radon in that region, 10 micro r duzzent seem out of place.  especially if yer talking about the back yard, the hill side of the plant.  wood ant take much of an atmospheric inversion to generate that level ~ 1 meter from the ground.

   ...from experience, i was thinking that, as a reference point, 10 micro rem per hour is the average general area dose rate at all the protected area yards in the U.S....

   ...i was seeking confirmation of this generalization from those that have this kind of experience...

   ...thankyou again for the reply...

[SloGlo]

   ...from experience, i was thinking that, as a reference point, 10 micro rem per hour is the average general area dose rate at all the protected area yards in the U.S....

it's been over a decade since i was in a power plant p.a.  however, while i was there, as a contractor, i seldom used a ludlum model 19.  when i did the peach, i never used a m19!  especially in the back yard, where the rwcu tanks (i think that's what they are, been > decade for that plant) were.  but, for being in that area, a section of the reading prong after all, 10 micro r wouldn't be a big deal.  probably a couple of multiples of that rate wouldn't raise an eyebrow in most p.a.s of bwr plants.   

[tweathers50]

This is interesting.  For anyone that has ever done decon work they know that the more you decon the greater the dose rates on the tool that you are cleaning with.  Depending on the area that you are deconning you could see contamination spread all over the place.  By doing the decon contamination is built up along with increase dose rates.  What would possibly be worse?  Taking a smear or explaining to the boss that the ED alarm was caused by a deconner cleaning a valve.  Health Physics 101.

[OldHP]

This is interesting.  By doing the decon contamination is built up along with increase dose rates. 

 

Not if the decon staff is properly trained!   

However, a lot of folks would rather just through a janitor in there and say, Do It!