Radon, Thoron and Their Progeny: DOE’s Proposed Internal Dosimetry Standard

PNNL-SA-30051

Presented at the April 22, 1998, Meeting of the DOE Air Monitoring Users Group at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina

Authors: Judith D. Foulke and Dan Strom.

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Table of Contents

Title
Overview
Introduction
Introduction
Peculiar Issues
Weird Quantities and Units
Air Monitoring
Air Monitoring 2
Air Sampling for Personnel Dosimetry
Air Sampling for Personnel Dosimetry 2
Exposure Monitoring Thresholds
Why PAEE?
Assessment of Intake, Exposure, and Dose
Background
Equilibrium Equivalent Concentration
Equilibrium Factor, F
Acceptable Default Equilibrium Factors for Radon (FRn)
Assigned Respiratory Protection Factors for Rn, Tn, and Their Progeny
Time-Integrated Concentration, NV
Equilibrium Equivalent Concentration, EEC
PAEE and transitions per unit volume
PAEE to Dose Equivalent Conversions For 222Rn Progeny
Converting Measurements to CEDE
Converting Measurements to CEDE
Minimum Detectable Dose for a Nuclear Track Etch Radon Detector
Committed Dose Equivalent to Lung and Intakes
Rounding
Conversion Factors 1
Conversion Factors 2
Conversion Factors 3
DL and MDA
Current Status in the DOE
Future Directions
Conclusions

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