Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: c0dbb594-6262-4b83-96b1-366758ad9676
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Interim Licensing policy on as low as Practicable for Gaseous Radiodine Releases from Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactors (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1229/ML12298A137.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.42
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,1% ~ ~.4~i~CoN Revision 1 U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION March 1974 REGULATORY GUIDE DIRECTORATE OF REGULATORY STANDARDS REGULATORY GUIDE 1.42 INTERIM LICENSING POLICY ON AS LOW AS PRACTICABLE FOR GASEOUS RADIOIODINE RELEASES FROM LIGHT-WATER-COOLED NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS- A. INTRODUCTION Paragraph 20.1(c) of 10 CFR Part 20 provides that AEC licensees should make every reasonable effort to keep radiation exposures and releases of radioactive material in effluents to unrestricted areas as low as practicable. Consistent with this objective, §50.34a of 10 CFR Part 50, "Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities," requires, in part, that construction permit applications include design objectives and that technical specifications include operating conditions for the purpose of maintaining the release of radioactive material in effluents from nuclear power reactors as low as practicable. On June 9, 1971, the Atomic Energy Commission published in the Federal Register (36 F.R. 11113) for public comment proposed amendments that would, if adopted, supplement 10 CFR Part 50 by adding an Appendix I. Appendix I would, if adopted, provide numerical guides for design, objectives and technical specification requirements for limiting conditions of operation for light-water-cooled nuclear power reactors (LWR) to keep radioactive material in effluents as low as practicable. On February 20, 1974, the Regulatory staff issued its "Concluding Statement of Position''2/ based on -!In this revision, Sections A, B, and C and Appendices C and D are almost com- pletely rewritten and Appendices A and B are moderately revised. !/Concluding Statement of Position of the Regulatory Staff Public Rulemaking Hearing on: Numerical Guides for Design Objectives and Limiting Conditions for Operation to Meet the Criterion "As Low As Practicable" for Radioactive Material in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactors, USAEC, February 20, 1974, Docket N. RM-50-2. USAEC REGULATORY GUIDES Regulatory