Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 36318a40-8941-4ccf-8898-197c33065a4b
Document Type: srp
Title: OPERATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION PROGRAM
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1007/ML100740544.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 12
Section ID: 12.5
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G 8.29 (training on radiation risks); RG 8.34 (monitoring criteria and calculation of occupational doses); RG 8.35 (planned special exposures); RG 8.36 (doses to the embryo/fetus); and NUREG-0736. The acceptability of the radiation protection program will also be based on provisions for indoctrination and personnel training and retraining programs. Guidance appears in RGs 1.8, 8.8, 8.10, 8.15, and 8.27. In addition, 10 CFR 19.12 requires instruction of personnel on radiation protection. An annual review of the radiation protection program should include updating procedures, equipment, and facilities where improvements are warranted. Different parts of the radiation protection program can be reviewed each year, on a rotating basis, such that the entire program is reviewed at least once every 3 years. The program should include regular audits to determine where ORE is occurring and to review methods for reducing these exposures. Using the methods listed in 10 CFR 50.34(f)(2)(xxvii) and additional guidance from Section III.D.3.3 of NUREG-0718, applicants for construction permits should provide preliminary design information concerning monitoring in-plant radiation dose rates and airborne radioactivity for a broad range of routine and emergency conditions. The monitors should meet the criteria of Revision 3 of RG 1.97. Using the methods listed in 10 CFR 50.34(f)(2)(xxvii) and additional guidance from Section III.D.3.3 of NUREG-0737, applicants for OLs and COLs should describe the equipment, training, and procedures to measure accurately the radioiodine concentration and external radiation dose rate levels in areas within the plant where plant personnel may be present during an accident. Using the methods listed in 10 CFR 50.34(f)(2)(viii) and additional guidance from Section II.B.3 of NUREG-0737, applicants for OLs and COLs should describe the equipment, training, and procedures to obtain and analyze samples of reactor coolant and containment during an accident without