The program of the ALARA Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Conference · Thu Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:10149408

Khan, T A; Baum, J W

In 1984 the Brookhaven National Laboratory was asked by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to set up a Center to monitor dose-reduction efforts in the US and abroad and to focus the industry`s attention on ALARA. The paper summarizes the main work of the ALARA Center between 1984 and 1992. The Center maintains nine data bases for the NRC and the Nuclear Power Industry. These databases are constantly updated and access to them is provided through a personal computer and a modem and by periodic publications in the form of a newsletter and NUREG reports. Also described briefly are eight other projects related to dose-reduction at nuclear power plants that the Center has carried out for the NRC. Among these are projects that analyze the cost-effectiveness of engineering modifications, look at worldwide activities at dose reduction and compare US and foreign dose experience, examine high-dose worker groups and high-dose jobs, develop optimum techniques to control contamination at nuclear plants, and look at the doses being received by men and women in all sectors of the nuclear industry.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 10149408
• Report Number(s): BNL-NUREG--48552; CONF-9305129--1; ON: DE93011645
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

560101
61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY
ALARA
BNL
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DOSIMETRY AND MONITORING
INFORMATION
MONITORING
NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION PROTECTION
US NRC