What Does a Film Badge Do
A Film Badge Dosimeter Monitors Your Radiation Exposure to Prevent You from Exposure to over 10% of the Allowable Radiation Limit (Alara). the Radiation Badge...
A film badge dosimeter monitors your radiation exposure to prevent you from exposure to over 10% of the allowable radiation limit (ALARA). The radiation badge measures the amount of radiation your body is exposed to so that you do not absorb large amounts of ionizing radiation.
What advantages do film badges present for personnel monitoring?
The major advantages of a film badge as a personnel monitoring device are that it provides a permanent record, it is able to distinguish between different energies of photons, and it can measure doses due to different types of radiation. It is quite accurate for exposures greater than 100 millirem.
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What are the disadvantages of film badges?
The major disadvantages are that it must be developed and read by a processor (which is time consuming), prolonged heat exposure can affect the film, and exposures of less than 20 millirem of gamma radiation cannot be accurately measured.
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