A radiation worker is subject to a dose of 50 mrad/h of protons for one 40 h wor

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A radiation worker is subject to a dose of 50 mrad/h of protons for one 40 h work week. How many times the yearly allowable effective dose did she receive?

HINT: To obtain the effective dose, multiply the dose rate by the time in hours and the quality factor . You then have to divide this by the allowed dose for a radiation worker per year.

Thank you!!

HINT: To obtain the effective dose, multiply the dose rate by the time in hours and the quality factor . You then have to divide this by the allowed dose for a radiation worker per year.

Thank you!!

Explanation / Answer

dose of proton for one week =50 mrad/h

The number of times the yearly effective dose is =50*0.001*40 rads = 2 rads

This is about 2 times the worked allowed exposure for radiation workers

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