Monitoring for compliance with decommissioning termination survey criteria

Technical Report · Mon Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:6286313

Holoway, C F; Witherspoon, J P; Dickson, H W; Lantz, P M; Wright, T

This document was prepared as part of the requirement for considering changes in regulations on decommissioning of commercial nuclear facilities. Specifically, it addresses the final steps needed to ensure that a site which has been decontaminated can be released for unrestricted use. Consideration is given to preliminary and termination (certification surveys designs and procedures which might be used for licensed nuclear fuel-cycle and non-fuel-cycle facilities. In addition, information on instrumentation, evaluation and interpretation of monitoring data, and cost-effectiveness of monitoring is given. This guide was designed to be a general-purpose document both for licensees and regulatory agency inspectors who are concerned with specifications of a monitoring program, complete with checks and audits, which can be used to verify compliance with decommissioning criteria. Moreover, much of the information and methodology presented here furnishes part of the data base being established by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in its reappraisal of regulations for decommissioning of licensed facilities.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6286313
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR-2082; ORNL/HASRD-95; ON: DE83010960
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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