>Is there any legitimate reason to report CPM instead of dose after a contamination event? Basically, the procedures for certain environments differ. If you wa

>Is there any legitimate reason to report CPM instead of dose after a contamination event? Basically, the procedures for certain environments differ. If you want to gather dosage data, you use a dosimeter. If you want a binary Yes/No method of detecting contamination, you use a geiger counter and determine if the count rate is above a certain range (depending on background radiation and other factors). The 300CPM metric just indicates whether they're clean or not after they've been scrubbed down. It doesn't measure the dose they took.