All the facilities reviewed demonstrated an adequate regard for the radiation safety of the workers utilizing the facilities.
Effective controls are in place to minimize radiation dose to non-destructive examiners.
The utilization of radiation generating devices is not explicitly covered in the DOE orders. For radiography sources, the DOE's Radiological Control Manual suggests the use of the commercial standards found and encompassed in 10CFR34. Guidance on the application of the standards is not provided in the Radiological Control Manual. This situation will change somewhat when 10CFR835 Occupational Radiation Protection and various implementation guides are formally issued, but even their implementation is a year or two away. The radiation generating devices currently used are capable of developing beam strengths of several thousand rem per minute and field strengths up to a few thousand rem per hour.