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No. 98-10 January 15, 1998
NRC SCHEDULES THIRD WORKSHOP The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled the third in a series of workshops on methods for demonstrating compliance with its recently issued regulation on radiological criteria for license termination.
The workshop will be held January 26 from 9:00 a.m. until about 5:00 p.m. in the NRC's auditorium at Two White North, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland..
Purpose of the workshop is to receive suggestions from the public and licensees on an NRC working paper the staff is developing as a section of a future NRC regulatory guide on "Demonstrating Compliance with the Radiological Criteria for License Termination."
The meeting will focus on methods for demonstrating compliance with portions of the regulations that require that:
-- For all types of license termination, licensees must show that radiation doses from contamination remaining on the property after license termination and unrestricted release of the site will be as far below the required limits as reasonably achievable;
-- For licensees who propose restricted release of the site, licensees must show that further reductions in remaining radioactivity would result in net public or environmental harm.
-- For licensees who propose to use the provision that, if the institutional controls required by the rule for restricted release fail, the radiation dose could be as high as 500 millirems per year, licensees must demonstrate that further reductions in remaining radioactivity would result in net public or environmental harm, are not technically achievable or would be prohibitively expensive.
The NRC expects to hold in February a fourth, final workshop in this series on demonstrating compliance with radiological criteria for license termination. Details will be announced soon.
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