ML20128N792
| ML20128N792 | |
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| Issue date: | 10/07/1996 |
| From: | Clint Jones NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Paperiello C NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| Download: ML20128N792 (3) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 3000H001 G,Es October 7, 1996 MEMORANDUM TO: Cad J. Paperiello, Director Offloe of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards THRU: Donald A. Cool, Dinr4cp Division ofindustda and Medical Nuclear -
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SUBJECT:
FOREIGN TRAVEL TRIP REPORT Attached please find a summary of my foreign travel to the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, from August 26-30,1996, in which I was selected as one of two international scientific consultants to develop and prepare a Safety Series guide on ' Source and Environmental Mon!toring for Radiation Protection of the Public"(see Attachment 1).
The Division of Radiation and Waste Safety within the Department of Nuclear Safety at the IAEA has an aggressive schedule for finalizing some of the more important implementation documents, some of which I have been directly involved in as their Advisory Group Chairperson. Specifically, the IAEA wishes to clarify the regulatory nature of some of documents (such as Safety Series 77, and the abcmA;.nced document which I prepared with Dr. Krishnamony, fmm the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India) to directly refer to the requirements of the IAEA Basic Safety Staneards. I believe that this document is particularly of Interest to us at the NRC and e::tremely timely, especially with advent of increasing concems about environmental safety and the potential for members of the public to be exposed from radioactive emissions from our licensed facilities.
The final draft of Attachment 1 is currently undergoing lAEA editorial and technical review, it is anticipated that the final draft will be completed in late October 1996, and then sent to the Advisory Group participants shortly thereafter. The Advisory Group Meeting is scheduled the week of December 2 6,1996 at the IAEA, and I have been requested by the Department of Nuclear Safety to chair this intomational meeting (see Attachment 2). If you have any questions regarding this document, please let me know, and I will arrange a mutually agreeable time for us to meet on this document.
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TING TITLE: Scientific consultants meeting for the preparation and finalization of a draft guide on
- Source and Environmental Monitoring for Radiation Protection of the Public."
ORGANIZED BY: The Intemational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
DATES OF TRAVEL: August 26-30,1996 ABSTRACT AND/OR
SUMMARY
OF MEETING RESULTS:
At the request of IAEA's Division of Radiation and Waste Safety Department of Nuclear Safety, C. Jones, Sr. Level Advisor for Health Physica, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safegua,'ds, and S. Krishnamony, Head, Health Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre were ;nvited as paid scientific consultants to develop, draft and finalize a guide on
' Source and Environmental Monitoring for Radiation Protection of the Public" which will serve as the revision of Sa'aty Series 41.
Recently lAEA's Division of Radiation and Waste Safety has been charged with transforming several technical documents that have been developed over the past several years on environmental and effluent monitoring in the public domain. These documents existed primarily as TECDOCS or draft technical documents and needed to be trkasformed into either a primary
' regulatory guide" or finalized as a technical reference. This regulatory guide was developed to directly refer to those requirements of the IAEA Basic Safety Series 115 regarding concise guidanoe on their interpretation in practice (as shown in the attached draft in italics), much the same way as was done for Safety Serirs's 77, " Regulatory Control of Radioactive Discharges into the Environment
- last year.
Dr. Krishnamony and I reviewed Safety Series 77, Safety Series 120, ' Radiation Protection and the Safety of Radiation Sources," along with a draft TECDOC on environmental monitoring and drafted the attached revised Safety Series 41, which we expanded in scope to account for the conceptual change of radiation protection as well as recent developments in instrumental and environmental monitoring. This version of the Guide describes both the principles and practices of monitoring for radiation of the public under normal expos' ire scenarios. Of particular interest are Sections 3, ' Objectives of Monitoring," and 4, ' Design of Monitoring Programmes," which go into some detall as to when Regulatory Authorities would initiate environmental monitoring (per IAEA Basic Safety Series 115) for casos involving single-source, multiple-source, or for widespread environmental monitoring.
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October 10,1996 l Please replace with previous copy received. Attachment 1 was not copied in number sequence. Please note: There is no page 48.
Thank you.
Charlotte Estep