3.2.6 USS CURTISS Dose Calculations
Dose calculations for personne! onboard the CURTISS on 1-2 March are detailed

below. Time periods below deck are indicated by an asterisk(*). After 2 March, the
daily film badge dose is calculated by multiplying the integrated intensity topside
(Table 2-6) by the time-averaged shielding factor (0.46); the integrated intensity below
is multiplied by the fraction of the day spent below deck (0.6).

Contributions from

each source are summed and converted to a film badge dose. Cumulative film badge
doses through 31 May 1954 are given in Table 3-6.

Day

Time Period

1 March

0000-0600*
0600-1200
1200-1800*
1800-2000
2000-2400*

Integrated

Intensity (mR)

x

Ship Shielding

0
12.6
171.6
83.2
132.9

400.3 (Table 2-6)

Factor
0.1
1.0
0.1
1.0
0.1

=

Adjusted

Exposure (mR)
0
12.6
17.2
83.2
13.3

126.3

1 March film badge dose = (126.3 mR) (0.7 mrem/mR) = 88.4 mrem (Table 3-6)

2 March

0000-0800*
0800-1200
1200-1330*
1330-1700
1700-1800*
1800-2000
2000-2400*

198.7
69.3
21.0
38.1
10.0
20.0
37.9

395.0 (Table 2-6)

0.1
1.0
0.1
1.0
0.1
1.0
0.1

19.9
69.3
2.1
38.1
1.0
20.0
3.8
154.2

2 Marchfilm badge dose = (154.2 mR) (0.7 mrem/mR) = 107.9 mrem
Cumulative film badge dose through 2 March = 196 mrem (Table 3-6)

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