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Title: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission dose modeling workshop, Nov. 13-14, 1997, resrad model presentation.

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OSTI ID:10585

RESRAD was one of the multimedia models selected by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to include in its workshop on radiation dose modeling and demonstration of compliance with the radiological criteria for license termination. This paper is a summary of the presentation made at the workshop and focuses on the 10 questions the NRC distributed to all participants prior to the workshop. The code selection criteria, which were solicited by the NRC, for demonstrating compliance with the license termination rule are also included. Among the RESRAD family of codes, RESRAD and RESRAD-BUILD are designed for evaluating radiological contamination in soils and in buildings. Many documents have been published to support the use of these codes. This paper focuses on these two codes. The pathways considered, the databases and parameters used, quality control and quality assurance, benchmarking, verification and validation of these codes, and capabilities as well as limitations of these codes are discussed in detail.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
10585
Report Number(s):
ANL/EA/CP-95458; TRN: AH200126%%402
Resource Relation:
Conference: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Dose Modeling Workshop, Washington, DC (US), 11/13/1997--11/14/1997; Other Information: PBD: 29 Jan 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English