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Site Profiles
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Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Refined Uranium and Thorium
(Approved December 13, 2006)
 PDF 446 KB (75 pages)
About this Document: This technical basis is established for the reconstruction of radiation doses of workers at AWE sites which refined uranium under contract to the United States government from 1942 to 1958. This document covers the generic aspects of uranium refining and the data are useful where no other dosimetry data exist. Site specific appendices are included that provide information that apply to only the identified site.
Appendix:
Appendix AA -- Hooker Electrochemical
(Approved June 15, 2007)
PDF 66 KB (10 pages)
Appendix B -- DuPont Deepwater Works
(Approved January 3, 2008)
PDF 66 KB (10 pages)
Appendix BH -- International Minerals and Chemical Corporation
(Cancelled July 10, 2008)
Note: This document has been cancelled. This is a phosphate plant and this site profile (Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Refined Uranium and Thorium) only deals with the uranium exposure. Because there are a limited number of claims from this facility, NIOSH will complete the dose reconstructions without the use of this site profile.
Appendix C -- Electro Metallurgical Company
(Approved December 21, 2007)
PDF 32 KB (8 pages)
Appendix D -- United Nuclear Corp.
(Approved March 13, 2008)
PDF 55 KB (7 pages)
Appendix P -- Baker-Perkins--Michigan
(Approved September 14, 2007)
PDF 68 KB (7 pages)
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Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium and Thorium Metals
(Approved December 13, 2006)
PDF 394 KB (57 pages)
About this Document: This document provides an exposure matrix for workers at AWE facilities that performed metal-working operations with uranium metal. Over 110 facilities performed these operations, and this document intends to provide guidance for dose reconstruction at any of these facilities. The main body of this document, in Sections 2-6, includes general discussions of operations and exposure conditions at these facilities. Following the main body of this document is a collection of appendices, with one appendix for each AWE site that performed metal-working operations. Each appendix contains site-specific information that can be used for dose reconstruction. For those sites where this information is insufficient or totally lacking, the dose reconstructor must use information in the main body of the Site Profile.
Appendices:
Appendix AS -- Copperweld Steel Co.
(Approved July 16, 2007)
PDF 79 KB (8 pages)
Appendix B -- Birdsboro Steel & Foundry Company
(Approved September 14, 2007)
PDF 86 KB (9 pages)
Appendix BB -- General Steel Industries
(Approved June 25, 2007)
PDF 82 KB (12 pages)
NOTE: Worker outreach activities and meetings specific to General Steel Industries have occurred. To view the minutes from these meetings, please refer to the Worker Outreach Activities section of this Web page.
Appendix BD -- Heald Machine Company
(Approved July 16, 2007)
PDF 73 KB (8 pages)
Appendix BL -- Jessop Steel Co.
(Approved May 25, 2007)
PDF 107 KB (10 pages)
Appendix BO -- LaPointe Machine & Tool Co.
(Approved May 25, 2007)
PDF 136 KB (9 pages)
Appendix BP -- Landis Machine Tool Co.
(Approved July 16, 2007)
PDF 83 KB (9 pages)
Appendix C -- Dow Chemical Company (Madison Site)
(Approved September 8, 2008)
PDF 140 KB (13 pages)
Appendix CD -- Seymour Specialty Wire Company
(Approved July 16, 2007)
PDF 320 KB (20 pages)
Appendix CO -- U.S. Steel, National Tube Division
(Approved June 15, 2007)
PDF 97 KB (10 pages)
Appendix CU -- Mitts & Merrel Co.
(Approved July 16, 2007)
PDF 106 KB (9 pages)
Appendix G -- Anaconda Co.
(Approved April 30, 2007)
PDF 119 KB (7 pages)
Appendix Q -- Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Company
(Approved April 30, 2007)
PDF 206 KB (16 pages)
Appendix R -- Aluminum Company of America--Pennsylvania (Alcoa 1)
(Approved April 30, 2007)
PDF 128 KB (10 pages)
Appendix S -- Aluminum Company of America--New Jersey (Alcoa 2)
(Approved April 30, 2007)
PDF 66 KB (7 pages)
Appendix V -- American Chain and Cable Company
(Approved July 16, 2007)
PDF 83 KB (9 pages)
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Technical Information Bulletins (TIBs)
- Default Assumptions and Methods for Atomic
Weapons Employer Dose Reconstructions
PDF 638 KB (70 pages)
Document Number: Battelle-TIB-5000 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes the assumptions and methods to be used for dose reconstructions
from certain AWE sites.
Approved: April 2, 2007
- Dose Reconstruction During Residual Radioactivity Periods at Atomic Weapons Employer Facilities
PDF 263 KB (26 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0070 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes a process for
estimating dose to workers at AWE Facilities during residual
radioactivity periods.
Approved: March 10, 2008
- Estimating the Maximum Plausible
Dose to Workers at Atomic Weapons Employer Facilities
PDF 122 KB (25 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0004 Rev-03 PC-2
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for a process for
estimating the maximum plausible dose to workers at selected AWE Facilities.
Page Change Revision: December 6, 2006
Page Change Revision Includes: Removes Westinghouse Atomic
Power Development Plant from Table B-1 in Attachment B on page
25, because their radiological activities included more than metallic
uranium work. Updated required language in Purpose section on
page 5. No further changes occurred as a result of internal formal
review. Incorporated NIOSH formal review comment. This revision
may result in an increase in assigned dose to Westinghouse Atomic
Power Development Plant cases and a PER is required for
Westinghouse Atomic Power Development Plant cases previously
completed using this document.
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Program Evaluation Reports (PERs) and Program Evaluation Plans (PEPs)
NIOSH is committed to applying the best available science in dose reconstructions. In keeping with this commitment, completed cases with probabilities of causation less than 50% are reviewed as relevant new information becomes available. The results of these reviews are described in a Program Evaluation Report (PER). The PER details the effect, if any, of the new information on the completed dose reconstruction. If it appears that the compensability of a completed dose reconstruction may be effected, NIOSH is committed to working with the Department of Labor to reopen and rework the dose reconstruction, as appropriate.
- PER
24 : General Steel Industries TBD Approval
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Document Number: OCAS-PER-0024 Rev-00
About this Document: New document to determine which
previously completed claims require
evaluation for the effect of approving a
GSI TBD.
Approved: September 25, 2007
Summary: There were 4 General Steel Industries claims completed with a probability of causation below 50% prior to the approval of the TBD. These were completed using ORAUT-OTIB-0004. Since the new document describes a higher dose for some of the dose estimate, it is necessary to revise these dose estimates to determine the effect. NIOSH is requesting that these claims be returned for a new dose estimate. A new dose reconstruction will be completed for each of the claims using the latest revision to the General Steel Industries TBD.
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Worker Outreach Activities
Based on a recommendation from the Advisory Board to provide workers and site experts with opportunities to participate in developing the technical documents used in dose reconstruction, NIOSH established a Worker Outreach Program.
At Worker Outreach Meetings, current and former DOE and AWE employees have opportunities to obtain information about Site Profiles, Technical Basis Documents, and Technical Information Bulletins, and to provide information for consideration and possible use in dose reconstruction. This process is valuable to ensure that the technical documents used in dose reconstruction contain correct and useful information.
Below are the Worker Outreach Activities for AWE Site Wide Documents:
- General Steel Industries
- October 9, 2007
Town Hall Meeting for General Steel Industries, Inc.
Meeting with former workers from General Steel Industries, Inc., and other interested parties in Collinsville, Illinois
Minutes
PDF 80 KB (21 pages)
- August 21-22, 2006
General Steel Industries Worker Outreach Meeting in Collinsville, Illinois
Note: This meeting was not sponsored by NIOSH.
Transcript from August 21, 2006
PDF 1.6 MB (62 pages)
Transcript from August 22, 2006
PDF 1.3 MB (50 pages)
- August 11, 2006
General Steel Industries Affidavit Testimony meeting held in East Alton, Illinois
Note: This meeting was not sponsored by NIOSH.
Transcript
PDF 1.9 MB (171 pages)
- July 7, 2006
General Steel Industries Affidavit Testimony meeting held in East Alton, Illinois
Note: This meeting was not sponsored by NIOSH.
Transcript
PDF 3.3 MB (299 pages)
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Work Group on TBD 6000/6001, Appendix BB
This Work Group is responsible for the review of the specified TBDs as well as the appendices that apply to specific work sites. They will also review any reports developed by the Board's contractor (SC&A) pertaining to these TBDs and the appendices, and will assist NIOSH and SC&A in resolving issues that arise through the review process. The initial focus of the Work Group will be on appenidix BB of TBD 6000, dealing with General Steel Industries. The Work Group will make recommendations to the Board in cases where appendices involve sites with SEC petitions.
- Work Group Members
Paul Ziemer-Chair
Josie Beach
Mark Griffon
John Poston
Wanda Munn--Alternate
- Meeting Information
- November 10
Meeting of the Advisory Board's Work Group on TBD 6000/6001, Appendix BB
Cincinnati Airport Marriott
2395 Progress Dr.
Hebron, KY 41048
(859) 586-0166
9:30 a.m. (Eastern time)
This meeting is open to the public, but without a public comment period.
Teleconference call access is available for this meeting
and it is limited only by the number of ports available.
To access the meeting via the teleconference call access,
you must dial 1-866-659-0537. To be automatically connected
to the meeting, you will need to enter the following participant
code: 9933701.
An agenda will be provided at a later date.
Please note that as part of the procedures and processes of the Advisory Board's Work Groups, several kinds of pre-decisional documents may be developed. These documents, which can include white papers, matrices, working drafts, etc., are distributed among the Work Group members as research and background tools to facilitate discussion and deliberation. The discussions during the above meeting may cover a pre-decisional document. Because these types of documents are pre-decisional in nature, may contain sensitive information, and may change over time, they are not posted on our Web site. These finalized, reviewed and redacted pre-decisional documents are also available to other interested parties through an appropriate Freedom of Information Act request. Requests for documents not in the public domain should be submitted to the CDC/ATSDR Freedom of Information Act Office at foiarequests@cdc.gov.
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Comments on AWE Site Wide Documents
How to Submit Comments
Comments on AWE Site Wide documents can be submitted to the NIOSH Docket Officer electronically by e-mail at NIOCINDOCKET@cdc.gov or printed comments can be mailed to NIOSH Docket Office, Robert A. Taft Laboratories, MS-C34, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226. Please include the Site Profile Number (020) on all comments.
Comments Received
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Previous Versions of AWE Site Wide Documents
Estimating the Maximum Plausible Dose to Workers at Atomic Weapons Employer Facilities (TIB 4)
- Page Change Revision November 18, 2005
PDF 196 KB (24 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0004 Rev-03 PC-1
Page Change Revision Includes: Approved page change revision to correct enriched uranium intake numbers
in Table 3-5 (page 12).
- Revised August 12, 2005
PDF 135 KB (25 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0004 Rev-03
Revision Includes: Updates Appendix A, List of Applicable Facilities, and adds wording to clarify
the application of the document. Allows for expansion to other facility types; includes estimate of industrial
source exposures based on analyses of 1960-1980 commercial doses; deletes applicability (at this time) to
U-recovery with phosphoric acid; adds type S assumption; used activity rather than mass air concentrations
for calculations; uses different specific activity assumption for consistency with IMBA; uses OCAS-TIB-009
ingestion scenario; adds consideration of urinalysis; adds RU and EU assumptions; updates MCNP ingot doses;
modifies ingot external dose assumptions; modifies external dose contamination calculation by accounting for
isotopic fractions to consider effect of EU; removes external organ doses, but provides separate analyses
(concern from Task 5 that reconstruction methods subject to their program should not be in site profile - the
line is still blurry); added nonpenetrating dose assumptions; added photofluorography assumption prior to 1962.
Corrected Table 3-8, first row to acute. Addressed OCAS comments: explicitly stated exception to default
radiography doses could be made on a case-by-case basis, limited Appendix A industrial exposures to covered
periods, and changed Appendix A industrial dose estimates back to linear (versus exponential) fit of data.
- Revised December 4, 2003
PDF 124 KB (13 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0004 Rev-02
Revision Includes: Adds remainder dose to Table 4.
- Revised November 25, 2003
PDF 849 KB (13 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0004 Rev-01
Revision Includes: Incorporates changes to correct errors on pages 4 and 10. TIB
incorrectly referred to Absorption Type in ingestion discussion.
- Approved November 20, 2003
PDF 146 KB (13 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0004 Rev-00
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Page last reviewed: May 30, 2008
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