Ionizing Radiation Dose Ranges Chart introduces radiation science & explains the Chart for those not completely familiar with the concepts it presents
Office of Environment, Health, Safety & Security
February 1, 2018
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The DOE Ionizing Radiation Dose Ranges Chart was developed as a tool to compare and put into perspectives the radiation doses received by individuals ranging from natural sources to occupational or in medicine. The Chart provides a user-friendly reference for comparison of radiation exposures of interest to scientists and the public, illustrating how ionizing radiation interacts with humans over six orders of magnitude.
The Information Brief was developed to augment the Chart, introducing the radiation science and explaining the general structure of the Chart and the concepts it presents.
The third document provided is a graphical representation of the relative radiological dose exposures that a person can receive on a daily and a yearly basis and is compared onto a graphical dose thermometer with current regulatory dose limits at the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency.