Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: fabdf65c-d299-4b3a-a971-ae5b21a97177
Document Type: srp
Title: RADIATION SOURCES
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1315/ML13151A413.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 12
Section ID: 12.2
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REVIEW RESPONSIBILITIES Primary - Organization responsible for the review of health physics issues. Secondary - None I. AREAS OF REVIEW The staff will review the applicant’s Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR) for a construction permit (CP), or Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) for an operating license (OL), design certification (DC), or combined license (COL), as it relates to radiation sources in normal operations, anticipated operational occurrences (AOOs), and accident conditions used as the bases for determining the radiation protection design features provided to ensure compliance with the requirements of the commission, including: Maintaining Occupational Radiation Exposure (ORE) as low as is reasonably achievable (ALARA), controlling the concentration of radioactive material in the air for workers; controlling the exposure of members of the public from direct radiation sources. 12.2-2 Revision 4 –September 2013 The staff also reviews sources of radioactive material used as the bases for determining the design features needed to comply with the requirements: to minimize contamination of the facility and the environment, minimize the generation of waste and facilitate decommissioning, to control radioactive material, and to identify the types and quantities of radioactive material that may affect the qualification of electrical equipment important to safety. The specific areas of review are as follows: 1. Contained Sources. The description of radiation sources, during normal operations and accident conditions in the plant, is used as the basis for designing the radiation protection program and for shield design calculations. (Safety Analysis Report (SAR) Chapter 11 describes the sources contained in equipment of the radioactive waste management systems). This description should include isotopic composition, location in the plant, source strength and source geometry, and the basis for the values (in the CP PSAR and updated in the OL FSAR, DC FSAR,