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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on November 14, 2008
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2008 131(3):277-278; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn281
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Quite some time ago Edward Vallario, Radiological Controls Division Director US Department of Energy (DOE), was working on the DOE Laboratory Accreditation Programme standard for proficiency testing of personal dosemeters. Edward passed away in 1999, but the author remembers him saying that he wanted to have ‘a rem to be a rem at Los Alamos, Argonne, or Brookhaven’, referring to the DOE national laboratories at those locations in the USA. This was, of course, a shorthand way of saying that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Joseph C. McDonald, Editor-in-Chief


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