FROM MEASUREMENT TO DOSE - PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE

The aim of the work is to describe briefly the methodology for establi shing and operating an internal dosimetry program in a complex waste p rocessing facility, with special emphasis to the complexity of activit ies and problems and to the uncertainties in attributing doses from bi oassay data. The purpose is not to make a fundamental study of the dos imetric models as such, but to give the viewpoint of the practical hea lth physicist who is confronted with interpretation problems as the co nsequence of an intake of radionuclides. Some model parameters are dis cussed in relation to acute or chronic intakes. A practical contaminat ion case is elaborated.