LANL Environmental ALARA Program Status Report for CY 2020

Technical Report · Mon Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1773323· OSTI ID:1773323

Bullock, Christine Anne ^[1]; Chastenet de Gery, Mary Jo ^[1]; Mcnaughton, Michael ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) ensures that radiation exposures to members of the public and the environment from LANL operations, past and present, are below regulatory thresholds and are as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) through compliance with Department of Energy (DOE) Order 458.1 Radiation Protection for the Public and the Environment (DOE 2020), and LANL Functional Series Documents EPC-ES-FSD-004,Environmental Radiation Protection, (LANL 2020a) and EPC-ES-FSD-003, Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental ALARA Program (LANL 2020b). These documents provide related program authorities, responsibilities, descriptions, processes, and thresholds for conducting qualitative and quantitative ALARA analyses for prospective and actual radiation exposures to the public and to the environment resulting from DOE activities conducted on the LANL site.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security (AU), Office of Environmental Protection and ES&H Reporting
• DOE Contract Number: 89233218CNA000001
• OSTI ID: 1773323
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--21-22997-Rev.01
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY