Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 45af6b56-d986-4eee-88d4-283b99c8b243
Document Type: srp
Title: OPERATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION PROGRAM
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0707/ML070720017.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 12
Section ID: 12.5
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R 20.2110, 10 CFR 20.2201, 10 CFR 20.2203, 10 CFR 20.2204, 10 CFR 20.2205, and 10 CFR 20.2306 provide the criteria for radiation surveys, personnel monitoring, bioassays, recordkeeping, and reporting. Guidance regarding these areas appears in Regulatory Guides 8.2 and 8.25 (surveys and personnel monitoring); Regulatory Guides 8.9, 8.20, 8.26, and 8.32 (bioassays); Regulatory Guides 8.2 and 8.7 (recordkeeping and reporting); Regulatory Guide 8.8 (decontamination, inspection, radiation protection program, and operations); Regulatory Guide 8.13 (training on radiation risks to fetuses); Regulatory Guide 8.27 (radiation protection training); Regulatory Guide 8.29 (training on radiation risks); Regulatory Guide 8.34 (monitoring criteria and calculation of occupational doses); Regulatory Guide 8.35 (planned special exposures); Regulatory Guide 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 Regulatory Guides 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. 12.5-14 Revision 3 - March 2007 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