Radiation Monitoring Notebook: Practical Answers to Complex Questions

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Author's Notes

Over my career in health physics starting with a US Army CBR unit at Dugway Proving Grounds in 1965 I have needed to quickly find that elusive data point that I just couldn’t remember, even though I knew the information was in one of my several hundred reference books.

So, here it is today, the product of my work to assemble useful field information from a wide range of sources. I must give credit to those individuals who put their efforts into creating the original data. Without their work, this document could not have been assembled.

James T. (Tom) Voss, NRRPT, CHP Fellow of the Health Physics Society Northern New Mexico, 2011
P.O. Box 1362, Los Alamos, NM 87544
Phone: 505-920-1470

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