Radiation-dose determinations from indium foils in multiplant security badges

Technical Report · Mon Jun 07 04:00:00 EDT 1971

OSTI ID:5247661

Bailey, J C

This report is a compilation of previously unpublished data concerning the use of indium foil for personnel monitoring in the event of a criticality accident. In particular, the report relates the calibration of the ORGDP security badge to the present multiplant badge, which was adopted in 1960. An earlier report described the methods used for calibrating the ORGDP badge and pointed out the limitations with respect to the accuracy of dose determinations as based upon any single radiation detection device, including indium foil, worn by an individual. The present report describes an experiment by which the relative instrument responses to radiation from indium foils in the older ORGDP security badges and in the multiplant badges were evaluated. With the results of this experiment, appropriate values to be utilized with the multiplant badge for referring employees to medical personnel in the event of a criticality accident were computed. It is emphasized that the purpose of the indium foils is to permit the rapid detection of persons who may have received serious radiation exposures from an accidental critical reaction so that medical personnel can give maximum attention to these people and will not have to give immediate attention to large numbers of people who have not received serious exposures. The crude dose estimates obtainable from indium foils are entirely satisfactory for this purpose.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 5247661
• Report Number(s): K-TL-172
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ACCIDENTS
CALIBRATION
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
CRITICALITY
DOSES
ELEMENTS
FISSION FOIL DETECTORS
INDIUM
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
METALS
MONITORING
NEUTRON DETECTION
NEUTRON DETECTORS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PERSONNEL MONITORING
RADIATION ACCIDENTS
RADIATION DETECTION
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION MONITORING
TESTING