An Exposure to Equal Amounts of Energy from Nuclear Radiation

question 35

Short Answer

An exposure to equal amounts of energy from nuclear radiation occurred at two different sites. At the first site an employee was exposed to neutrons with a W_R of 16 and received a dose of 33 mrem. At the second site a worker was exposed to alpha particles. What dose did this second empolyee receive?

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Definitions:

Inter-judge Reliability

The level of agreement or consistency between different judges or raters measuring the same phenomenon.

Internal Consistency

A measure of how well the items on a test measure the same construct or trait.

Content Validity

Refers to the extent to which a test measures all aspects of the concept it intends to measure.

Alternate-form Reliability

Refers to a measure's reliability assessed by comparing different versions of the test that are created to be equivalent.