A radiation worker is subject to a dose of 100 mrad/h of maximum QF neutrons for

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A radiation worker is subject to a dose of 100 mrad/h of maximum QF neutrons 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. In this case it is 5 rem/y. I keep getting the wrong answer could someone help. Thanks

Quality factor for types of radiation Neutrons 3-10

Exposure radiation worker dose limit 5 mSv/y 500 mrem/y

Explanation / Answer

(100 x 40)/5

=8

This is about 8 times the worked allowed exposure for radiation workers

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