Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: d62aa925-a135-4ee2-ba79-f6e4292edb17
Document Type: esrp
Title: RADIOLOGICAL MONITORING
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 6
Section ID: 6.2
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erations)—Effluent Streams and the Environment (NRC 1979a), with respect to establishing an appropriate quality assurance program for the radiological environmental monitoring program ` Radiological Assessment Branch Technical Position regarding Radiological Environmental Monitoring Programs, Rev. 1, Radiological Assessment Branch Technical Position (NRC 1979b). Technical Rationale The technical rationale for evaluating the applicant’s radiological monitoring program is discussed in the following paragraph: The purpose of a radiological environmental monitoring program is to provide a basis for evaluating concentrations of radioactive materials and radiation levels in the environment from radiological releases once a reactor is operational. A well designed and well implemented environmental program will characterize the environment before operations so that a reasonable comparison can be made after the reactor is operating. The preoperational program can also be used for all or some of the operational radiological environmental monitoring program. III. REVIEW PROCEDURES The following analysis procedures include a review of the applicant’s proposed preoperational radiological environmental monitoring program and the applicant’s operational monitoring program, as appropriate. The preoperational program should establish (or may have established) the baseline from which subsequent identification and assessment of radiological environmental impacts resulting from plant operation can be made. (1) Compare the applicant’s proposed program (including quality assurance) with the basic criteria of Regulatory Guides 4.1 and 4.15 and the recommended program elements of the NRC Branch Technical Position, “An Acceptable Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program.” The discussion of radiological environmental monitoring from the Branch Technical Position document is reproduced in Table 6.2-1. (2) Consider the following factors in the analysis: ` If a preoperational