Personnel Safety at Magnetic Fusion Experiments

The current fusion mission needs to demonstrate that fusion experiments and fusion power plants can be operated in a safe manner for the workers, local population, and environment. This paper describes some of the present issues and some solutions for personnel safety in magnetic fusion environments. Ionizing radiation, magnetic field exposure, chemical exposure, and radio frequency energy exposure are addressed. The present personnel protection limits are given and historical bases are used to speculate on the future of personnel protection limits as fusion research advances from experiments to the fusion power plants in the next decades.