# Presentation: 018440

## The Department of Energy’s
Radiation Protection
Guidance Documents

Dr. Judith D. Foulke
Office of Health, Safety and Security
U.S. Department of Energy
Radiation Protection Workshop
November 27, 2007

**Radiation Protection**
**Guidance Documents**
**Dr. Judith D. Foulke**
**Office of Health, Safety and Security**
**U.S. Department of Energy**
**Radiation Protection Workshop**
**November 27, 2007**

## Occupational Radiation Protection

**June 2007Amendment to 10CFR835**
**Clarified requirements which apply to radioactive material transportation**
**Excluded material, equipment and real property approved for release**
**Established a threshold for recording bioassay results**

**Updated dosimetric models and dose terms to be consistent with newer ICRP recommendations**
**Updated radiation weighting factors**
**Updated tissue weighting factors**
**Updated DAC tables**

## Technical Standards

**Procedure for Developing a DOE Technical Standard**
**Or Directive**
**If a registered standard is to be updated, the preparing activity reviews the document and revises the material.**
**This draft is reviewed internally by HSS staff.  **
**After changes are incorporated, the document is entered in to REVCOM system for review by subject matter experts.**
**After comments are resolved. The document is issued as a revised standard. **

**DOE G 441.1-1B**
**Radiation Protection Programs Guide for Use with Title 10 CFR Part 835**
**Occupational Radiation Protection**
**Consolidated Guide**
**In REVCOM**
**Comments due 11/24**

**DOE- STD-1098-99 Radiological Control Standard****,**
**Reaffirmation December 2004**
**Radiological Control Manual**
**Early 1990’s**
**Requirements document**
**Radiological Control Standard**
**July 1999**
**Guidance document **

**One of the oldest**
**Specifies components of a radiation protection plan**
**All 10CFR835 changes must be incorporated.**

**DOE STD-1107-97 Knowledge, Skills and Abilities for**
**Key Radiation Protection Positions at DOE **
**Facilities, Reaffirmation with Errata June 2005**
**DNFSB Recommendation 91-06**
**Recommendations for RadCon personnel**
**	****	****Radiological Control Technician**
**	****	****Radiological Control Manager**
**	****	****Supervisors of the above**
**Status:**
**Change Notice **
**Completed**
**Available **

**DOE-STD-1121-98 Internal Dosimetry Technical Standard, **
**Reaffirmation May 2003**
**Program for Internal Dosimetry**
**Bioassay **
**Air monitoring **
**Modeling**
**Dose calculation**
**Status:**
**Large number of changes**
**Contractor support**
**In REVCOM**

**DOE-STD-1128-98 Guide of Good Practices for Occupational Radiological Protection in Plutonium Facilities, Change Notice 1 February 2005**
**Status:**
**Needs significant work to update**
**RWF, TWF, DCF and DAC**
**Tables and Graphs**
**Considerable information not available**
**May change to inactive**

**DOE -STD-1136-2004 Guide of Good Practices for Occupational Radiological Protection in Uranium Facilities****                     **
**Status:**
**Needsd significant work to update**
**RWF, TWF, DCF and DAC**
**Tables and Graphs**
**Considerable information not available **
**May change to inactive**

**DOE HDBK-1106-97 Radiological Contamination Control for Laboratory Research, Reaffirmation January 2007**
**DNFSB Recommendation 91-06**
**Minor changes**

**DOE-HDBK-1109-97 Radiological Safety Training for Radiation-Producing (X-Ray) Devices, Reaffirmation with Errata**
**July 2002. **
**Minor changes**

**DOE - HDBK-1110-97 ALARA Training for Technical Support Personnel**
**Some editorial changes**
**In REVCOM **
**Resolution 11/12**

**DOE-HDBK-1122-99 Radiological Control Technician (RCT) Training, Reaffirmation November 2004**
**Very large handbook**
**Instructor’s Guide, Student’s Guide**
**Dose terminology  **
**In REVCOM**

**DOE- HDBK-1130-98 Radiological Worker (RW) Training, Reaffirmation May 2004)**
**10CFR835 requires radiological workers be properly trained**
**3-day course **
**Updated dose terms**
**Completed REVCOM comment resolution**
**In concurrence phase**

**DOE-HDBK-1131-98 General Employee Radiological Training (GERT), Reaffirmation April 2004**
**835 requirements**
**1-hr brief training for employees who may enter an area with radiological postings**
**Some dose term changes**
**In concurrence phase**

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**DOE -HDBK-1141-20, Radiological Assessor Training, Reaffirmation January 2007**
**How to perform oversight of radiological activities**
**In REVCOM**

**DOE HDBK-1143-2001 Radiological Control Training for Supervisors, Reaffirmation January 2007**
**How to supervise radiological workers**
**and declared pregnant workers **

**DOE- HDBK-1145-2001 Radiological safety Training for Plutonium Facilities,      Reaffirmation January 2007.**
**Training specific to plutonium facilities**
**In REVCOM**

** ****DOE HDBK-1113-98 Radiological Safety Training for Uranium Facilities,     Reaffirmation April 2005**
**Specific to uranium facilities **
**in REVCOM**

**DOE- HDBK-1184-2004 Radiological Control Programs for Special Tritium Compounds**
**DNFSB Suggestion**
**Metal tritides**
**Organically bound tritium**

**         ****Technical Position Papers**
**26 Technical Position Papers **
**04-01****	****Guidance on the Revision of Internal Radiation dose Estimates in Response to Updated Internal Dosimetry Methodologies**
**01-02****	****Acceptable Approach for Developing Air Concentration Values for Controlling Exposures to Special Tritium Compounds**
**01-01****	****Questions and Answers Concerning Acceptable Approaches to Implementing Bioassay Program Requirements  **

**Exemption Decisions**
**21 Exemptions in effect**
**CH2MHILL  Hanford – Use of Units**
**LMES – Tissue Weighting Factors **
**PNNL – Use of Units **
**SRS – Tissue Weighting Factors **
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**Future**
** ****3 staff members**
**Compliance due July 2010**
**Planning on updated guidance by **
**End of 2008**