Savannah River 

Site Status Update

Stuart Hinnefeld, CHP

Director

Division of Compensation Analysis and Support

Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health 114th meeting

Santa Fe, New Mexico

November 30, 2016

Department of Health and Human Services

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Department of Health and Human Services

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Status of Deliverables

# Issue Topic Deliverable Initial 

Completion

Status

1 Co-worker 

Models

Initial or interim ORAUT-OTIB-0081 (Rev 3) Oct . 2016 Nov. 2016

Full ORAUT-OTIB-0081 (Rev 4) Feb. 2017 Jun. 2017

2 Neptunium

ORAUT-RPRT-0065 – Np Operations Aug. 2016 Sep. 2016

ORAUT-RPRT-0077 - Identification Sep. 2016 Nov. 2016

ORAUT-RPRT-0080: PuFF Construction Dec. 2016 Dec. 2016

3 Thorium

ORAUT-RPRT-0070: Thorium Exposures - 1972 Jan. 2017 Mar. 2017

ORAUT-RPRT-0081: Thoron Exposures Jan. 2017 Jan. 2017

4 Metal Hydrides ORAUT-RPRT-0072: Metal Hydride exposures Oct. 2016 Dec. 2016

5 Subcontractor 

Follow-up

Job Plan Evaluation of Construction work Feb. 2017 Mar. 2017
Department of Health and Human Services

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Co-worker models

Revision 3 sent to Advisory Board on Radiation and 

Worker Health in November

Revision 4 of ORAUT-OTIB-0081 to contain all 

remaining radionuclides of interest1

Schedule change due to need to code additional 

data

Scheduled completion June 2017

1Plutonium, uranium, neptunium, mixed fission products, strontium, cesium, and cobalt
Department of Health and Human Services

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

ORAUT-RPRT-0070: Thorium Exposures 

post 1972 at the Savannah River Site

 Post-1972 Thorium (Th) exposures report to describe SRS Th 

work and dose reconstruction (DR) methods from 1972-1980 and 

1980-1995 

 After May 1980, will support use of 10% of the DAC to bound the 

Th doses when Th operations and inventory were minimal 

(Evaluation based on air monitoring and contamination surveys) 

Schedule change due to delay in receiving air monitoring data 

from SRS (All air data was received in September 2016 - 2 

months 

Scheduled completion March 2017
Department of Health and Human Services

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Metal hydrides (tritides)

1. ORAUT-RPRT-0072: Metal Hydride exposures at 

the Savannah River Site

2. Discusses research work, operations, and the 

associated exposures to metal hydrides at the SRS

Schedule change due to additional classification 

reviews in August and October

Scheduled completion December 2016
Department of Health and Human Services

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Subcontractor follow-up

 NIOSH sampled the Job Plans and randomly selected 

110 construction trades workers for follow up

 Data capture for radiological records conducted week of 

November 14, 2016 

- Radiological records located for most workers and submitted 

to SRS classification office for clearance 

Once physical copy of records are obtained, analysis will be 

completed and provided to the SRS Workgroup 

Scheduled completion for this effort is March 2017