What are preliminary actions to be taken prior to carry out the survey? What is the net dose rate measured for each location ? Calculate the dose received in a year (assuming 2 000 hrs) working in the highest radiation level workplace? What is the % to the Annual Dose Limit (ADL)? An RPO swiped a laboratory bench top suspected to be contaminated with natural thorium using a damp filter paper covering an of area 30cmx30cm . The result showed that total activity of thorium was found to be 32 Bq. Does the surface considered contaminated ?ATOMIC ENERGY LICENSING ACT 1984 RADIATION PROTECTION (TRANSPORT) REGULATIONS 1989 “contamination” means the. presence of any radioactive material, nuclear material or prescribed substance on a surface in quantities in excess of 0.4 Becquerel per square centimetres (Bq/cm?) for beta and gamma and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 0.04 Bq/cm? for all other alpha emitters;