[submariner409]

Whole-life dosage ? Absolutely dead-nuts positively certain. Been there, done that. Naval nuclear power steam generation is absolutely the safest form of energy creation currently in use on the planet. It's all highly efficient steam power, kids. The reactor supplies the heat, not coal or oil or gas, and it's absolutely clean and green. Expended U238??? Stick it back in the Marianas Trench whence it came. It will recycle in 275,000,000 years.

We used to wear a neutron badge and pocket dosimeter. Later in the 70's it went to dosimeters only. I think that only nukes wear them now. We DID have to wear other stuff when we did fire watch or welding observation duty in the reactor compartment. When the plant is shut down you can sit on top of the reactor vessel and there is nothing emitted. BUT when the reactor is critical, that's why the compartment is cased in several feet of lead and polyethylene block (Poly eats neutrons for lunch, while the lead kills Alpha and Beta particles.)

(We can only hope and pray that California breaks off and disappears, but no such luck. The State is currently imploding anyway, so it won't take long. IOU's for civil service pay vouchers ?? C'mon......)