Update on SEC-0221: Lawrence 

Livermore National Laboratory 

(review period 1974-1995)

LaVon B. Rutherford, CHP

SEC Health Physics Team Leader

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

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Purpose

 Update the Advisory Board on the Status of 

SEC-0221

• Previous SEC classes

• Status of the current review process

• Discussion on missing in vivo counts in the 

claimant records for LLNL

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Previous SEC Actions at LLNL

 LLNL has been the subject of two SEC 

evaluation reports

 SEC-0092 was subsumed by SEC-0163 

which extended the coverage to include all 

employees (instead of personnel with 

external dosimetry) at LLNL

 January 1, 1950 to December 31, 1973

 Includes all employees

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SEC-0221

 Qualified December 31, 2014

• Expected Completion: February 2016 for 

presentation at the March Advisory Board 

meeting 

• The focus of the review, as with many other 

National Laboratories, is related to exotic 

radionuclide usage and monitoring practices

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Progress

 LLNL, local DOE and DOE HQ have been very cooperative 

with site access, interviews and tours and vocal support 

for the process

 8 data captures have been completed since January 2015, 

one is going on this week and another is expected during 

December (so 10 expected in 2015)

 A large number of these involved classified interviews and 

review of classified documents that will likely always 

remain classified

 However a large volume of relevant data was captured to 

add to the information previously collected for TBD 

development and SEC evaluations

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Progress

 The substantial body of unclassified information that was 

recently provided has created a delay

 NIOSH is currently using a substantial part of the ORAUT 

team Health Physics staff to review hundreds of thousands 

of pages of new information and for use in the SEC 

evaluation

 The new information includes 7,400 new individual 

documents which represents an increase to the total 

documentation for NIOSH for LLNL by 62% 

 The information obtained from the classified interviews 

and materials reports will be developed into an 

unclassified materials for use in the evaluation report 

similar to the Hanford approach

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Progress

 NIOSH, ORAUT and ATL worked with the unions and also LLNL 

to further focus on workers who may have been under 

represented in other interviews (such as electricians, plumbers, 

and other trades who were sub-contractors)

 Many of these are unclassified and are being reviewed by the 

site for release to NIOSH 

 Additionally, on November 17 an outreach meeting describing 

the NIOSH SEC process and areas where we are focusing

 SC&A has participated in almost every data capture effort 

(exceptions being related to categorizing MC&A records) 

because most of the visits have been classified and unlikely to 

be easily repeated

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In Vivo Records Issue

 ORAU noticed a discrepancy between the expected data 

identified in log books of in vivo counting and actual data 

provided for cases by LLNL

 ORAUT and LLNL reviewed the original case files at LLNL and 

determined that the data did indeed exist and that it had not 

been included in the submitted packet for the case

 ORAUT has undertake the effort to use the in vivo counting log 

books (there are 300-400 individuals counted per year) to 

identify cases with missing information

 This process is ongoing as LLNL is providing more recent log 

books and supplementing log books which had some scanning 

errors

 To date 186 cases have been identified as having missing data

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Questions?

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