Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 91e83a7e-2aaf-4055-b6f9-8a4ce44a5391
Document Type: srp
Title: OPERATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION PROGRAM
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0523/ML052350049.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 12
Section ID: 12.5
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tance criteria, and the findings of the review. 12.5-10 Rev. 2 - July 1981 The staff concludes that the operational radiation protection program is Acceptable and meets the requirements of 10 CFR Part 19, Section 19.12; 10 CFR :rt 20; and 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, General Design Criterion 64. This inclusion is based on the following findings: The radiation protection program objectives are to provide reasonable assurance that the limits of 10 CFR Part 20, Sections 20.101, 20.103, and 20.104 will not be exceeded, to reduce unavoidable exposures further, and to ensure that individual occupational radiation exposures are maintained as far below regulatory limits as is reasonably achievable, and that total person-rem doses are as low as is reasonably achievable, in accordance with 10 CFR Part 20, Sections 20.1(c) and Regulatory Guides 8.8 and 8.10. The duties of the plant (Radiation Protection Manager) include (list duties). The radiation protection organizations, qualifications, training of personnel, objectives of the program, and ways in which it will be implemented are in accordance with the guidelines of Regulatory Guides 1.8, 8.2, 8.8, 8.10, and 8.13, and with 10 CFR Part 19, Section 19.12, and NUREG-0731 are acceptable. The radiation protection features at (plant name) include a (radiochemistry lab, personnel decontamination and emergency treatment areas, an access control point, counting room, calibration room, respirator testing facility, office, laundry, etc.). These facilities are sufficient to maintain occupational radiation exposures as low as is reasonably achievable and are consistent with the-guidelines of task action plan Item 1II.D.3.3 of NUREGs-0718 and 0737 and with the provisions of Regulatory Guide 8.8. 'quipment to be used for radiation protection purposes includes portable 3diation survey instruments, personnel monitoring equipment, fixed and portable area and airborne radioactivity monitors, laboratory equipment, air samplers, respiratory