Document: 10 CFR Part 20
Document ID: 81c5ca6b-2a16-47e6-bec8-cb58a7c25c3b
Document Type: cfr
Title: Compliance with requirements for summation of external and internal doses.
Source: 10 CFR Part 20
Source URL: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/part-20/section-20.1202
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Section ID: 20.1202
CFR Part: 20
CFR Title: 10

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ude it in demonstrating compliance with the limits. ( d ) Intake through wounds or absorption through skin. The licensee shall evaluate and, to the extent practical, account for intakes through wounds or skin absorption. Note: The intake through intact skin has been included in the calculation of DAC for hydrogen-3 and does not need to be further evaluated. [ 56 FR 23396 , May 21, 1991, as amended at 57 FR 57878 , Dec. 8, 1992] Footnotes - 20.1202 [ 1 ] An organ or tissue is deemed to be significantly irradiated if, for that organ or tissue, the product of the weighting factor, w T , and the committed dose equivalent, H T,50 , per unit intake is greater than 10 percent of the maximum weighted value of H T,50 , ( i.e. , W T H T,50 ) per unit intake for any organ or tissue.