US Department of Energy Laboratory Accreditation Program for personnel dosimetry systems (DOELAP)
- USDOE Radiological and Environmental Sciences Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (USA)
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Safety has developed and initiated the DOE Laboratory Accreditation Program (DOELAP) for personnel dosimetry systems to assure and improve the quality of personnel dosimetry at DOE and DOE contractor facilities. It consists of a performance evaluation program that measures current performance and an applied research program that evaluates and recommends additional or improved test and performance criteria. It also provides guidance to DOE, identifying areas where technological improvements are needed. The two performance evaluation elements in the accreditation process are performance testing and onsite assessment by technical experts. Performance testing evaluates the participant's ability to accurately and reproducibly measure dose equivalent. Tests are conducted in accident level categories for low- and high-energy photons as well as protection level categories for low- and high-energy photons, beta particles, neutrons and mixtures of these.
- Research Organization:
- EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/NE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-76ID01570
- OSTI ID:
- 5552003
- Report Number(s):
- EGG-M-00688; CONF-880404-21; ON: DE90002002; TRN: 89-029118
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 7. international congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA), Sydney (Australia), 10-17 Apr 1988
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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