Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: bb1a5a83-5b12-456c-b141-1e450c066cff
Document Type: srp
Title: ONSITE METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS PROGRAM
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1818/ML18183A446.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 2
Section ID: 2.3.3
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trations" of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 20. 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix I, provides numerical guidelines for the ALARA criterion concerning radioactive material in light-water-cooled nuclear power reactor effluents. Sections 50.34a and 50.36a contain provisions designed to ensure that releases of radioactive material from nuclear power reactors to unrestricted areas during normal operation, including anticipated operational occurrences, are kept as low as is reasonably achievable. Appendix I provides numerical guidance for this requirement. Meeting the requirements of these regulations provides assurance that radiation doses from normal operation and from anticipated operational occurrences will not result in exposures that could cause measurable damage. Data from the pre-operational onsite meteorological measurements program are used to generate atmospheric dispersion and deposition estimates which are significant inputs to the assessments performed to demonstrate compliance with these requirements. III. REVIEW PROCEDURES The reviewer will select material from the procedures described below, as may be appropriate for a particular case. The procedures outlined below are used to review CP applications, ESP applications, and COL applications that do not reference an ESP to determine whether the scope of the pre- operational and operational phases of the onsite meteorological measurements program for the proposed site meet the acceptance criteria given in Subsection II of this SRP section. For 2.3.3-9 Draft Revision 4 – September 2018 reviews of OL applications, these procedures are used to verify that the scope of the operational phase of the meteorological measurements program remains valid and that the facility's design specifications are consistent with this scope. As applicable, reviews of OL, DC, and COL applications include a determination on whether the content of any technical specifications related to the meteorological monitoring program operational phase is