It can happen on submarines, it can happen in the mail and it can happen if you fly a lot: a dose big enough to keep you out of radiological areas for a while. At the Pantex Plant earlier this year, it happened because someone left their dosimeter near a linear accelerator. That’s according to a pair of recent reports by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), published this week and last on the independent federal nuclear watchdog’s website. By the time the board published its latest reports on the incident, Pantex prime Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) had already told the Exchange Monitor that the high dose reported in February had hit only the employee’s thermoluminescent dosimeter, not the employee, and that the employee had returned to work in Building 11-50.
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