ORAU TEAM

Dose Reconstruction

Project for NIOSH

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Document Title:

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory –

Introduction

Document Number: ORAUT-TKBS-0027-1

Revision: 00

Effective Date: 08/22/2005

Type of Document: TBD

Supersedes: None

Subject Expert: Edward D. Scalsky

Document Owner

Approval: Signature on File Approval Date: 08/15/2005

Edward D. Scalsky, TBD Team Leader

Approval: Signature on File Approval Date: 08/15/2005

Judson L. Kenoyer, Task 3 Manager

Concurrence: Signature on File Concurrence Date: 08/16/2005

Richard E. Toohey, Project Director

Approval: Signature on File Approval Date: 08/22/2005

James W. Neton, Associate Director for Science

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PUBLICATION RECORD

EFFECTIVE 

DATE

REVISION 

NUMBER DESCRIPTION

06/21/2005 00-A New document to describe the contents of the Pacific Northwest 

National Laboratory Site Profile. Initiated by Edward D. Scalsky.

08/01/2005 00-B Replacement for Rev 00-A to refer dose reconstructors to the 

Hanford Technical Basis Documents for information concerning the 

Medical, Environmental, Internal, and External programs related to 

dose reconstruction. Initiated by Edward D. Scalsky.

08/05/2005 00-C Incorporates NIOSH review comments. Initiated by Edward D. 

Scalsky.

08/22/2005 00 First approved issue. Training required: As determined by the Task 

Manager. Initiated by Edward D. Scalsky.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section

Publication Record ..............................................................................................................................

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2

Acronyms ............................................................................................................................................4

1.0 Introduction.................................................................................................................................5

1.1 Site Profile Description................................................................................................................5

References ..........................................................................................................................................6
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ACRONYMS

EEOICPA Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000

MDA minimum detectable activity

NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

TBD technical basis document

U.S.C. United States Code
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1.1 INTRODUCTION

Technical Basis Documents (TBDs) and Site Profile Documents are general working documents that 

provide guidance concerning the preparation of dose reconstructions at particular sites or categories 

of sites. They will be revised in the event additional relevant information is obtained about the 

affected site(s). These documents may be used to assist the National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the completion of the individual work required for each dose 

reconstruction.

In this document the word “facility” is used as a general term for an area, building, or group of 

buildings that served a specific purpose at a site. It does not necessarily connote an “atomic weapons 

employer facility” or a “Department of Energy facility” as defined in the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. § 73841(5) and (12). 

1.2 SITE PROFILE DESCRIPTION

This Site Profile consists of this Introduction, and five TBDs (ORAUT 2005a, 2005b, 2005c, 2005d, 

2005e).

The Site Description TBD (ORAUT 2005a) briefly describes the facilities and processes of Pacific 

Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) primary mission, which originally was research and 

development of nuclear energy and other peaceful uses of nuclear materials. PNNL operated seven 

testing, research, and demonstration reactors; several fuel fabrication facilities; a plutonium fuels pilot 

plant; a radiological calibration and development laboratory; and a radiochemistry laboratory in the 

300 Area of the Hanford site. In addition, PNNL operated other facilities for testing chemical process 

improvements, materials and engineering studies, pile physics technology and metallurgical studies, 

post irradiation testing, environmental and bioassay programs, and many other research programs.

Not all of these programs were necessarily in the 300 Area.

The Occupational Medical Dose, Occupational Environmental Dose, Occupational Internal Dose and 

the Occupational External Dosimetry programs at the PNNL are the same programs that existed at 

Hanford subsequent to 01/03/1965 when Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) assumed responsibility for 

operation of the Hanford Laboratories and certain Hanford-wide services and functions as part of the 

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) operations at the Hanford site. Since that is the case, it has been 

determined that any dose reconstructions that incorporate the dose received by PNNL employees as 

a result of required medical x-ray examinations, environmental releases, or from internal or external 

exposure to radiation will be determined based on the programs described in the corresponding 

Hanford TBDs (ORAUT 2003a, 2003b, 2004a, 2004b) and any associated attachments (ORAUT 

2003c, 2004a).

The four PNNL TBDs have been revised to instruct dose reconstructors to refer to the equivalent 

Hanford TBDs for information needed to perform dose reconstructions for PNNL employees after 

01/03/1965.
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REFERENCES

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2005a, Technical Basis Document for the Pacific 

Northwest National Laboratory – Site Description, ORAUT-TKBS-0027-2, Rev. 0, Oak Ridge, 

Tennessee.

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2005b, Technical Basis Document for the Pacific 

Northwest National Laboratory – Occupational Medical Dosimetry ORAUT-TKBS-0027- 3, 

Rev. 0, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2005c, Technical Basis Document for the Pacific 

Northwest National Laboratory – Occupational Environmental Dosimetry,

ORAUT-TKBS-0027-4, Rev. 0, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2005d, Technical Basis Document for the Pacific 

Northwest National Laboratory – Occupational Internal Dosimetry, ORAUT-TKBS-0027-5, 

Rev. 0, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2005e, Technical Basis Document for the Pacific 

Northwest National Laboratory – Occupational External Dosimetry, ORAUT-TKBS-0027-6, 

Rev. 0, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2003a, Technical Basis Document for the 

Hanford Site – Occupational Medical Dose ORAUT-TKBS-0006- 3, Rev. 01, Oak Ridge, 

Tennessee.

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2003b, Technical Basis Document for the 

Hanford Site – Occupational Environmental Dose, ORAUT-TKBS-0006-4, Rev. 00, Oak Ridge, 

Tennessee.

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2003c, Technical Basis Document for the 

Hanford Site – Attachment A, Occupational Environmental Dose, ORAUT-TKBS-0006-4, Rev. 

00, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2004a, Technical Basis Document for the 

Hanford Site – Occupational Internal Dose, ORAUT-TKBS-0006-5, Rev. 0, Oak Ridge, 

Tennessee.

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2004b, Technical Basis Document for the 

Hanford Site – Attachment D Occupational Internal Dose, ORAUT-TKBS-0006-5, Rev. 0, Oak 

Ridge, Tennessee.

ORAUT (Oak Ridge Associated Universities Team), 2004a, Technical Basis Document for the 

Hanford Site – Occupational External Dosimetry, ORAUT-TKBS-00006-6, Rev. 01, Oak Ridge, 

Tennessee.