Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 9b45b5bc-d2c4-4525-9e4f-2f316d7270b3
Document Type: esrp
Title: RADIATION EXPOSURE TO CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 4
Section ID: 4.5
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Content:
iation exposure to construction workers is discussed in Chapter 12, Radiation Protection, October 1999 4.5-3 NUREG-1555 Section 12.4, as described in Regulatory Guide 1.70, Standard Format and Content of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants - LWR Edition (NRC 1978a). The information should be used in the staff’s safety review to determine whether turbine-building radiation sources in BWRs are adequately shielded and whether outside tanks or storage areas for radioactive materials need to be shielded. II. ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA Acceptance criteria for the analysis and evaluation of radiation exposure to construction workers are based on the relevant requirements of the following regulations: ` 10 CFR 20; 20.1301; 20.1302 with respect to public dose limits; or 10 CFR 20; 20.1001; 20.1201; 20.1203; 20.1204; and 20.1205, with respect to occupational dose limits requirements for summation of internal and external doses and the determination of the dose if construction workers need to be classified as radiation workers ` 10 CFR 50, “Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,” Appendix I, “Numerical Guides for Design Objectives and Limiting Conditions for Operation to Meet the Criterion ‘As Low As Is Reasonably Achievable’ for Radioactive Material in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactor Effluents” with respect to design objectives for dose when construction workers are considered members of the public. Regulatory positions and specific criteria necessary to meet the regulations as identified above are as follows: ` Regulatory Guide 8.8, Rev. 3, Information Relevant to Ensuring that Occupational Radiation Exposures at Nuclear Power Stations Will Be As Low As Is Reasonably Achievable (NRC 1978b) with respect to methods of ensuring that the calculated occupational doses are as low as is reasonably achievable. Technical Rationale The technical rationale for evaluating the applicant’s potential radiation exposure to construction