Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: ab793f65-5e26-4d07-9b5f-89d88633e24b
Document Type: srp
Title: ASSURING THAT OCCUPATIONAL RADIATION EXPOSURES ARE AS LOW AS IS
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0707/ML070710474.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 12
Section ID: 12.1
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rate the procedures necessary to ensure that radiation doses are ALARA, including work scheduling, work planning, design modifications, and radiological considerations. The following regulatory guides and NUREGs provide information, recommendations, and guidance and in general describe a basis acceptable to the staff for implementing the requirements of 10 CFR 19.12 and 10 CFR 20.1101: 1. Regulatory Guide 1.8, as it relates to a basis acceptable to the staff for complying with the Commission’s regulations with regard to the qualifications and training of radiation protection personnel 2. Regulatory Guide 1.33, as it relates to compliance with the Commission’s quality assurance regulatory requirements during nuclear power plant operations 3. Regulatory Guide 8.8, as it relates to a basis acceptable to the staff for meeting the requirements of 10 CFR 20.1101(b) by providing radiation protection information pertaining to actions taken during design, construction, operation, and decommissioning to ensure that ORE is kept ALARA 12.1-5 Revision 3 - March 2007 4. Regulatory Guide 8.10, as it relates to a basis acceptable to the staff for meeting the requirements of 10 CFR 20.1101(b) concerning the commitment by the applicant’s management and vigilance by the radiation protection manager and the radiation protection staff to maintain ORE ALARA 5. Regulatory Guide 8.27, as it relates to instructing personnel involved in licensed activities regarding their role and responsibilities for making every reasonable effort to maintain radiation exposures ALARA 6. NUREG-1736, as it relates to the requirements for a radiation protection program to maintain doses ALARA Technical Rationale The technical rationale for application of these acceptance criteria to the areas of review addressed by this SRP section is discussed in the following paragraphs: 1. Compliance with 10 CFR 19.12 requires that workers who receive occupational exposure be kept informed of radioactive materials