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Technical Information Bulletins (TIBs) contain information on specific technical issues or procedures for estimating radiation exposure. They are used to add to or supplement Technical Basis Documents (also called TBDs) and Site Profiles. TIBs may be used for a specific work site or multiple work sites.
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- Maximum Internal Dose Estimates for Certain
DOE Complex Claims
 PDF 88 KB (18 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0002 Rev-02
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for determining maximum internal
dose estimates for certain DOE complex claims.
Page Change Revision: February 7, 2007
Page Change Revision Includes: Revised for biennial review.
Constitutes a total rewrite of the document. Formatting and terminology changes were made to
make the document consistent with current practices. Attachment A and associated references from
Rev. 01 were deleted as they are no longer used. No changes occurred as a result of formal internal
review. Incorporates NIOSH formal review comments. This revision results in no change to the
assigned dose and no PER is required.
- Tritium Calculations with IMBA
PDF 670 KB (4 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-002 Rev-00
About this Document: Provides guidance on the use of IMBA to calculate tritium doses.
This guidance is applicable to IMBA Expert OCAS-Edition (Task I) and IMBA Expert USDOE-Edition Phase I.
Approved: April 22, 2003
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TIB 4
- 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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TIB 5
- Dose Reconstruction Cancer Data Requirements
PDF 35 KB (6 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-005 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes Energy Employee cancer data requirements
for NIOSH OCAS Claimant Tracking System (NOCTS) database and dose reconstruction.
Approved: September 5, 2003
- Internal Dosimetry Organ, External Dosimetry Organ, and IREP
Model Selection by ICD-9 Code
PDF 222 KB (33 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0005 Rev-02 PC-1
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for clarifying IMBA organ and IREP
model selection.
Page Change Revision: February 10, 2006
Page Change Revision Includes: Updates Table 3-1 (pages 15 - 22)
in Section 3.2 to reflect guidance in OCAS TIB-012 Rev 1 (internal
and external organs for ICD-9 series 200 through 204 changed from
"Reserved" to the specified organ) and changes OCAS-TIB-012
issue date and revision number in reference section (page 33). No
sections were deleted.
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TIB 6
- Dose Reconstruction from Occupationally Related
Diagnostic X-ray Procedures
PDF 457 KB (46 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0006 Rev-03 PC-1
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for the development
of a generic document to use to perform dose reconstruction from
occupationally related diagnostic X-ray procedures.
Page Change Revision: December 21, 2005
Page Change Revision Includes: Page change initiated to
incorporate recent direction from NIOSH to include DOL review
comments on page 8. Deletes two obsolete paragraphs on page 8 in
Section 1.0. Corrects table number reference on page 20 in Section
4.0. No sections were deleted.
- Interpretation of External Dosimetry
Records at the Savannah River Site (SRS)
PDF 17 KB (3 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-006 Rev-02
About this Document: Provides guidance on the Interpretation of External
Dosimetry Records at the Savannah River Site.
Revised: October 4, 2007
Revision Includes: Clarification of applicability per SC&A comments. This revision
replaces guidance found in the SRS Site Profile dated April 5, 2005.
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TIB 7
- Neutron Exposures at the
Savannah River Site
PDF 35 KB (6 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-007 Rev-01
About this Document: Provides guidance on when neutrons exposure should be
included in SRS dose reconstructions.
Revised: October 15, 2007
Revision Includes: Clarification of locations, occupations, and time periods
for which this TIB applies.
- Occupational Dose from Elevated Ambient Levels of External Radiation
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0007 Rev-00
About this Document: This document has been cancelled. The information contained in this document has been incorporated into Occupational Onsite Ambient Dose Reconstruction for DOE Sites (ORAUT-PROC-0060). This document is not available on our Web site but is available on request. Please send your request to NIOSH OCAS at: ocas@cdc.gov.
Approved: November 12, 2003
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TIB 8
- A Standard Methodology for Overestimating
External Doses Measured with Thermoluminescent Dosimeters
PDF 173 KB (20 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0008 Rev-01
About this Document: Establishes Technical Information Bulletin for
Overestimating External Doses Measured with Thermoluminescent Dosimeters.
Revised: May 12, 2006
Revision Includes: Revised discussion of shallow dose interpretation for low energy
photons.
- Use of ICRP 66 to Calculate Respiratory Tract Doses
PDF 29 KB (6 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-008 Rev-01
About this Document: Provides guidance on the use of ICRP 66 to calculate respiratory tract doses.
Revised: October 4, 2007
Revision Includes: Revision in response to review by the Advisory Board to clarify instructions
and add reference to ICRP 100.
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TIB 9
- Estimation of Ingestion Intakes
PDF 898 KB (5 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-009 Rev-00
About this Document: Provides guidance to be used for estimating intakes of
radioactive material through ingestion.
Approved: April 13, 2004
- Technical Information
Bulletin in Support of INEEL Technical Basis Document Section 6: Reanalysis of Hankins MTR Bonner
Sphere Surveys
PDF 156 KB (9 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0009 Rev-01
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis in support of
INEEL Technical Basis Document Section 6. Re-analysis of Hankins MTR Bonner Sphere
Surveys.
Revised: December 13, 2006
Revision Includes: Revised as a result of biennial review. Adds Introduction with
required language and a Purpose section. Per new document requirements, added a Table of Contents.
Constitutes a total rewrite of document. Incorporates internal and NIOSH formal review comments.
This revision results in no change to the assigned dose and no PER is required.
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TIB 10
- A Standard Complex-Wide Methodology for
Overestimating External Doses Measured with Film Badge Dosimeters
PDF 222 KB (19 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0010 Rev-01
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for a standard
complex-wide correction factor for overestimating external doses measured with
film badge dosimeters.
Revised: June 5, 2006
Revision includes: Revised document as a result of biennial review. Constitutes a total
rewrite of document.
- Best Estimate External Dose Reconstruction for Glovebox Workers
PDF 1.5 MB (14 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-0010 Rev-02
About this Document: Provide guidance on dose reconstructions
for glovebox workers. This TIB discusses the special exposure characteristics that may be
encountered by energy employees who work with gloveboxes and provides special dose correction
factors or modifiers that should be applied to affected energy employee's dose. It should be noted
that throughout this technical information bulletin, the term glovebox is used, however, in the early
years of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) facilities; these types of units were commonly called
dry boxes as their original intent was to isolate radioactive materials. Throughout this report these
terms should be considered equivalent.
Revised: December 30, 2005
Revision Includes: Title change--this document was previously titled: "Special External
Dose Reconstruction Consideration for Glovebox Workers." It has been modified to provide best estimate approach.
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TIB 11
- Lung Dose Conversion Factor for Thoron WLM
PDF 56 KB (9 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-0011 Rev-03
About this Document: Provides the conversion factor for calculating lung
dose from Rn-220 decay products measured in working level months (WLM).
Revised: January 28, 2008
Revision Includes: Correction factors added for Radon 219 and calculation errors corrected. Minor editorial changes to text.
- Tritium Calculated and Missed Dose Estimates
PDF 162 KB (9 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0011 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis to document
tritium calculated and missed dose estimates methodology.
Approved: June 29, 2004
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TIB 14
- Assignment of Environmental Internal Doses
for Employees Not Exposed to Airborne Radionuclides in the Workplace
PDF 116 KB (7 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0014 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for the assignment of environmental
internal doses for employees not exposed to airborne radionuclides in the workplace.
Approved: June 22, 2004
- Rocky Flats Internal Dosimetry Coworker Extension
PDF 109 KB (17 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-014 Rev-00
About this Document: Extends TIB 38: Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site. In order to extend the analysis beyond 1988, data was obtained
from the Rocky Flats site's HIS-20 database. The purpose of this TIB is to extend the previous TIB 38
utilizing the same methodology.
Approved: December 7, 2006
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- Interpretation of Dosimetry Data for
Assignment of Shallow Dose
PDF 922 KB (26 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0017 Rev-01
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for the
interpretation of dosimetry data for assignment of shallow dose.
Revised: October 11, 2005
Revision Includes: Guidance on non-uniform skin exposures and
exposures of the breast, testes, and other organs impacted by shallow doses.
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- Internal Dose Overestimates for Facilities
with Air Sampling Programs
PDF 405 KB (35 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0018 Rev-01
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis to provide information for internal
dose overestimates for facilities with air sampling programs.
Revised: August 9, 2005
Revision Includes: To 1) incorporate into Table 4-3 Nb-95 type S and Tc-
99 type F beta choice and replace RU with U-234 alpha choice, 2)
add Table 7-2 which provides excretion values for uranium and
radiostrontium below which the default intakes was still valid, 3) add
special air concentration values for LANL into Table 4-1,4) correct
error in the ingestion intake formula #4. Text was added or modified
in Sections 1.0 through 5.0, 7.0, and Attachment A. No entire
Sections were deleted.
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- Analysis of Coworker Bioassay Data
for Internal Dose Assignment
PDF 273 KB (10 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0019 Rev-01
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for the analysis of coworker
bioassay data for internal dose assignment.
Revised: October 7, 2005
Revision Includes: Revision to update and expand current practices.
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TIB 20
- Use of Coworker Dosimetry Data for
External Dose Assignment
PDF 57 KB (9 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0020 Rev-02
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis to provide general information
to Dose Reconstructors (Health Physicists) to assign doses to workers at DOE sites who have no or limited
monitoring data, based on site coworker external dosimetry data.
Revised: December 4, 2008
Revision Includes: Approved revision that cancels changes from draft
revisions 01 PC-1-A and 01 PC-1-B. Section 3.0 was revised to include language
developed during the review of this TIB by the Advisory Board Working Group on Procedures.
Section 7.0, Attributions and Annotations was added. Editorial changes include an update
of Section 1.0, Purpose, and movement of Section 6.0, References, to the end of the document
with consequent renumbering of following sections. References updated as necessary.
Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments.
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- External Coworker Dosimetry Data
for the X-10 Site
PDF 66 KB (12 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0021 Rev-01
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis to provide information to allow
Dose Reconstructors (Health Physicists) to assign doses to workers at the X-10 site who have no or limited
monitoring data, based on site coworker data.
Revised: November 7, 2006
Revision Includes: Approved Revision 01 due to release of ORAUT-OTIB-0052, Rev.
00. Per new document requirements, added a table of contents. This revision results in an increase in
assigned dose and a PER is required. This revision also documents minor corrections to Table 2
that do not require a PER. No further changes occurred as a result of formal internal review.
Incorporates NIOSH formal review comments.
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- Guidance on Wound Modeling for
Internal Dose Reconstruction
PDF 126 KB (9 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0022 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis provide information and
guidance to Dose Reconstructors (Health Physicists) regarding the best estimate of internal dose from a
contaminated wound.
Approved: November 18, 2005
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- Assignment of Missed Neutron Doses
Based on Dosimeter Records
PDF 36 KB (6 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0023 Rev-01
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis to allow Dose
Reconstructors (Health Physicists) to determine when it is appropriate
to assign neutron doses to workers at DOE sites using the LOD/2 method.
Revised: May 14, 2008
Revision Includes: Incorporated comments from Advisory Board Work Group on
Procedures and align with page change to IG-001. Added minor
editorial changes for consistency with current requirements,
including the addition of an Acronym and Abbreviations list,
incorporating an Introduction section to include standard OTIB
language, and updating section numbers. No further changes
occurred as a result of formal internal review. Incorporates formal
NIOSH review comments.
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TIB 26
- External Coworker Dosimetry
Data for the K-25 Site
PDF 63 KB (11 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0026 Rev-00 PC-2
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis to allow
Dose Reconstructors (Health Physicists) to assign doses to certain workers
at the K-25 site who have no or limited monitoring data, based on site
coworker data.
Page Change Revision: November 15, 2006
Page Change Revision Includes: Approved page change revision due to release of
OTIB-0052. Updates required language on page 4 in Section 1.0. Lists ORAUT-OTIB-0052 Rev 00 as a
reference on page 6 in Section 5.0. Removes Section 8.0 on page 10, changes title and inserts on
page 11. No further changes occurred as a result of formal internal and NIOSH review. No sections
were deleted. This revision results in an increase in assigned dose and a PER is required.
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TIB 27
- Supplementary External Dose Information for Rocky Flats
This document has been cancelled. There is no longer a need to keep this information in a stand-alone document. The information contained in this document has been incorporated into the Rocky Flats Plant Site Profile section: Occupational External Dose.
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0027 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for supplementary external dose information for Rocky Flats Plant.
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- Validation of Thorium Annual
Dose Conversion Factors
PDF 112 KB (22 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0028 Rev-02
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for the
validation of thorium dose conversion factors to be used for internal dose assessment.
Revised: July 28, 2008
Revision Includes: Revision to document all dose calculations with the DCAL
computer program. No further changes occurred as a result of
formal internal and NIOSH review. Constitutes a total rewrite of the
document.
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- Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for Y-12
PDF 254 KB (25 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0029 Rev-00
About this Document: TIB for assignment of Y-12 internal doses based on coworker
bioassay data.
Approved: April 5, 2005
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- External Coworker Dosimetry Data
for the Hanford Site
PDF 51 KB (10 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0030 Rev-00 PC-1
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis to provide
information to allow Dose Reconstructors (Health Physicists) to assign doses to certain workers
at the Hanford site who have no or limited monitoring data, based on site coworker data.
Page Change Revision: November 7, 2006
Page Change Revision Includes: Page change revision due to release of ORAUT-OTIB-0052
Rev 00. Updates required language on page 3 in Section 1.0. Lists ORAUT-OTIB-0052 Rev 00 as a reference
on page 5 in Section 5.0. Rewrites item 5 on page 7 in Section 7. Completes Section 8.0 on page 8. Adds
Table 3 to page 10 in Section 8.0. Incorporates formal internal review comments. Per new document
requirements, added a Table of Contents. This revision results in an increase in assigned dose and a
PER is required.
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- External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
PDF 64 KB (12 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0031 Rev-00 PC-2
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis to provide information to allow
Dose Reconstructors (Health Physicists) to assign doses at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant to certain
workers who have no or limited monitoring data, based on site coworker data.
Page Change Revision: November 7, 2006
Page Change Revision Includes: Page change revision due to release of ORAUT-OTIB-
0052 Rev 00. Updates required language on page 4 in Section 1.0.
References ORAUT-OTIB-0052 Rev 00 on page 6 in Section 5.0.
Completes Section 8.0 on page 9. Completes Table 3 title on page
11. No further changes occurred as a result of NIOSH formal review.
This revision results in an increase in assigned dose and a PER is
required.
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- External Coworker Dosimetry Data for
the Savannah River Site
PDF 59 KB (10 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0032 Rev-00 PC-1
About this Document: Provides information to allow
Dose Reconstructors (Health Physicists) to assign doses to Savannah River
Site workers who have no or limited monitoring data, based on site
coworker data.
Page Change Revision: November 7, 2006
Page Change Revision Includes: Page change revision due to release of ORAUT-OTIB-
0052 Rev 00. Updates required language on page 4 in Section 1.0.
References ORAUT-OTIB-0052 Rev 00 on page 6 in Section 5.0.
Completes Section 8.0 on page 8. Revises title of Table 3 on page
10. No changes occurred as a result of formal internal review. This
revision results in an increase in assigned dose and a PER is
required.
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- Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for X-10
PDF 271 KB (29 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0034 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis to assign X-10 internal
doses based on coworker bioassay data.
Approved: December 13, 2005
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- Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for K-25
PDF 252 KB (19 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0035 Rev-00 PC-1
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for assignment of K-25 internal
doses based on coworker bioassay data.
Page Change Revision: July 21, 2006
Page Change Revision Includes: Approved page change revision to add updated language to
Section 1.0 on pages 5 and 6. Details were added to page 6 in Section 2.0. The date in Section 5.1 and in
Table 5.1 on page 8 was changed from 1948 to 1945. Attachment C, Estimate of Intake Rates for 1945-1947 was
added to pages 18 and 19. Incorporates internal and NIOSH formal review comments on pages 6, 7, 8, and 9 in
Sections 2.0, 4.0, 5.1, and 5.2 respectively. No sections were deleted.
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TIB 38
- Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
(Approved August 3, 2006)
This document has been cancelled. There is no longer a need to keep this information in a stand-alone document. The information contained in this document has been incorporated into the Rocky Flats Plant Site Profile section: Occupational Internal Dose.
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TIB 39
- Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data
for the Hanford Site
PDF 850 KB (55 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0039 Rev-01
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for assignment of Hanford internal
doses based on coworker bioassay data.
Revised: October 1, 2007
Revision Includes: Initiated to add Section 7.0, Attributions and
Annotations and corresponding citations throughout the text. Also
updated Sections 5.3, 5.3.1.2, 6.1 and Attachment A regarding Type
S plutonium to provide best estimate intake values. Incorporates
formal internal and NIOSH review comments.
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TIB 40
- External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
PDF 61 KB (10 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0040 Rev-00 PC-1
About this Document: Allows dose reconstructors to assign doses to Portsmouth Gaseous
Diffusion Plant workers who have no or limited monitoring data, based on site coworker data.
Page Change Revision: November 7, 2006
Page Change Revision Includes: Approved page change revision due to release of
ORAUT-OTIB-0052 Rev 00. Updates required language on page 4 in Section 1.0. References ORAUT-OTIB-0052
Rev 00 on page 6 in Section 5.0. Completes Section 8.0 on page 9. No changes occurred as a result of
formal internal review. This revision results in an increase in assigned dose and a PER is
required.
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TIB 46
- Historical Evaluation of the Film
Badge Dosimetry Program at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Part 3 - Beta Radiation
PDF 1.2 MB (72 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0046 Rev-00
About this Document: Provides background information on the Y-12 external dosimetry
program related to film badge monitoring of beta radiation. Incorporates formal internal and
NIOSH review comments. Attributions and Annotations section added. Added references and made editorial
changes. No further changes occurred as a result of formal internal and NIOSH review of the Attributions
and Annotations section. There is no change to the assigned dose and no PER is required.
Approved: June 22, 2007
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TIB 49
- Estimating Doses for Plutonium Strongly
Retained in the Lung
PDF 360 KB (60 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0049 Rev-01 PC-1
About this Document: Provides information for a model for estimating doses for highly
insoluble plutonium. Incorporates internal and NIOSH formal review comments. Incorporates Attributions
and Annotations section. There is an increase in assigned dose and a PER is required.
Page change revision includes: Revised to add fecal sample information in
Section 4.1.4 on page 16 and Attachment E on pages 58-60.
Updates NIOSH required language on page 8 in Section 1.0.
Corrected acronym on page 21 in Section 6.0. No sections were
deleted. No further changes occurred as a result of formal internal
and NIOSH review.
Revised: September 26, 2008
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TIB 50
- Use of Rocky Flats Neutron Dose Reconstruction Project Data in Dose Reconstructions
This document has been cancelled. There is no longer a need to keep this information in a stand-alone document. The information contained in this document has been incorporated into the Rocky Flats Plant Site Profile section: Occupational External Dose.
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0050 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis to establish guidance for the use of
Rocky Flats Neutron Dose Reconstruction Project data in dose
reconstructions.
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TIB 52
- Parameters to Consider When Processing
Claims for Construction Trade Workers
PDF 226 KB (35 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0052 Rev-00 PC-1
About this Document: Describes the parameters to consider when
processing claims for construction trade workers.
Page Change Revision: January 16, 2007
Page Change Revision Includes: Sections 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 on pages 32 and 33 revised in
order to provide consistent guidance for dose reconstruction. No sections were deleted. Incorporates
internal formal review comments. No changes were needed as a result of NIOSH formal review. This
revision does not result in an increase of dose and no PER is required.
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TIB 54
- Fission and Activation Product
Assignment for Internal Dose-Related Gross Beta and Gross Gamma Analyses
PDF 405 KB (78 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0054 Rev-00 PC-1
About this Document: Provides guidance on the assignment of radionuclide-specific
intakes of mixed fission and activation products when air sampling or urinalysis data associated
with reactors or reactor fuels are available only as gross or total beta activity or gross or total
gamma activity.
Page change revision: November 19, 2007
Page change revision includes: Initiated to add Information regarding
the distribution to be used in IREP in Section 8.0 on pages 29 and
30. This information is now covered in added Sections 8.1 and 8.2.
Added reference on page 32. No sections were deleted.
Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments.
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TIB 58
- External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Rocky Flats Plant
This document has been cancelled. There is no longer a need to keep this information in a stand-alone document. The information contained in this document has been incorporated into the Rocky Flats Plant Site Profile section: Occupational External Dose.
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0058 Rev-01 PC-1
About this Document: New technical information bulletin to provide information to allow dose reconstructors to assign doses at the Rocky Flats Plant to certain workers who have no or limited monitoring data, based on site coworker data.
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TIB 60
- Internal Dose Reconstruction
PDF 101 KB (24 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0060 Rev-00
About this Document: Provides guidance in the performance of internal dose reconstructions.
It incorporates the requirements of ORAUT-PROC-0003, Internal Dose Reconstruction, which will be cancelled.
Incorporates internal formal and NIOSH review comments. Incorporates additional NIOSH review comments. There
is no change in the assigned dose and no PER required.
Approved: February 6, 2007
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TIB 61
- Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for the
Mound Site
PDF 185 KB (30 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0061 Rev-00
About this Document: Assigns Mound internal doses based on coworker bioassay data.
Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments. There is no change to the assigned dose and
no PER is required.
Approved: June 22, 2007
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TIB 66
- Calculation of Dose from Intakes of
Special Tritium Compounds
PDF 1.0 MB (14 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0066 Rev-00
About this Document: Provides guidance for the calculation of
best estimates of the annual organ doses for intakes of tritium bound
to organic compounds (organically bound tritium; OBT) and tritium in
a metal matrix (stable metal tritide; SMT).
Approved: April 26, 2007
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TIB 72
- External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico
PDF 111 KB (12 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0072 Rev-00
About this Document: Provides information to
allow dose reconstructors to assign doses at the
Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico to certain
workers who have no or limited monitoring data, based on site
coworker data. No changes occurred as a result of formal internal
and NIOSH review.
Approved: September 26, 2008
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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 TIBs:
At the current time, no worker outreach activities specific to any TIB have been scheduled.
Worker Outreach meeting information for a specific work site and the minutes from the meetings can be found on the individual site pages. To view all information for a specific work site for which OCAS has developed information, please visit our List of Work Sites page. The information found on the individual work sites pages can include: technical documents (site profiles, technical basis documents, technical information bulletins), worker outreach information and final minutes, Special Exposure Cohort information, and public comments.
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Comments on TIBs
How to Submit Comments
Comments on TIBs 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, MSC-34, 4676 Columbia Parkway,
Cincinnati, OH 45226. Please include the Site Profile
Number (019) on all comments.
Comments Received
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Previous Versions of TIBs
TIB 2: Maximum Internal Dose Estimates for Certain DOE Complex Claims
- Page Change Revisions May 7, 2004
PDF 193 KB (20 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0002 Rev-01 PC-2
Page Change Revision Includes: Lists additional organs to Table 3.1.1-4 on page 8.
Adds information on page 9 regarding conditions to determine the potential for internal exposure - for
covered employee's initial hire date after 1952 and not participating in a bioassay program prior to 1970
and the covered employees initial hire date prior to 1970 with an evaluation of working conditions.
- Page Change Revision January 28, 2004
PDF 410 KB (20 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0002 Rev-01 PC-1
Page Change Revision Includes: Added information on pages 8 and 9 regarding the
employee's initial hire date after 1969 and revised hire date for Hanford employees. Deleted the
following information: The covered employee's initial hire date was 1970 or later. For Hanford employees,
the covered employee's initial hire date was 1953 or later. See Attachment B for discussion.
- Revised January 10, 2004
PDF 176 KB (19 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0002 Rev-01
Revision Includes: Incorporates the allowance for the application of this
TIB to claimants who were monitored and who did have detectable activity ("positive") in their samples;
the evaluation of those sample results will ensure that the method used results in the highest POC.
- Approved November 7, 2003
PDF 145 KB (15 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0002 Rev-00
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TIB 4: Estimating the Maximum Plausible Dose to Workers at Atomic Weapons Employer Facilities
- 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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TIB 5: IMBA Organ, External Dosimetry Organ, and IREP Model Selection by ICD-9 Code
- Revised December 2, 2005
PDF 173 KB (33 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0005 Rev-02
Revision Includes: Adds information for ICD-9 codes 289.7 and 289.9, clarifies handling
adenocarcinoma of the distal (lower third) esophagus, corrects
external organ for ICD-9 codes 233.4 and 236.5, updates correct
model selections for various cancers (to reflect guidance in OCAS
TIB-012, except as directed by OCAS to mark many 200-204 organs
as "Reserved"), adds likely primary cancer selection for secondary
cancers. Changes references to "IMBA organ" to "Internal Dosimetry
organ."
- Page Change Revision October 29, 2004
PDF 206 KB (20 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0005 Rev-01 PC-3
Page Change Revision Includes: IMBA model correction for ICD-9 code 189.2, 189.3, and 189.4
(changed to highest non-met organ/tissue on page 9), added
footnote number 5 to Table 1 for ICD-9 code 232 on page 18.
Changed DOL documentation to NIOSH Referral Summary
Document (NRSD) on page 20.
- Page Change Revision May 7, 2004
PDF 205 KB (19 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0005 Rev-01 PC-2
Page Change Revision Includes: IMBA and External model correction for ICD-9 code 231.8 (changed
to med review on page 15), IMBA model correction for ICD-9 codes
235.8 and 235.9 (changed to med review on page 16), External
model correction for ICD-9 code 185 (changed to bladder on page 8).
- Page Change Revision March 8, 2004
PDF 192 KB (19 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0005 Rev-01 PC-1
Page Change Revision Includes: IREP model correction for ICD-9 code 238.7 (added Bone model),
remove IMBA/External/IREP model info from header rows for ICD-9 codes 194 and 205.
- Revised January 23, 2004
PDF 275 KB (19 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0005 Rev-01
Revision Includes: Incorporates applicable external dosimetry organ selection.
- Approved November 3, 2003
PDF 177 KB (24 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0005 Rev-00
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TIB 6: Dose Reconstruction from Occupationally Related Diagnostic X-ray Procedures
- Revised August 2, 2005
PDF 458 KB (46 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0006 Rev-03
Revision Includes: Revision to add photofluorography use table and lumbar spine xrays.
Deleted footnote b and adjusted footnote references in Table7-6.
- Revised December 29, 2003
PDF 200 KB (26 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0006 Rev-02
Revision Includes: Revision that includes information to re-instate the ability for the
document to cover exposures pre-1970.
- Revised December 8, 2003
PDF 801 KB (21 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0006 Rev-01
Revision Includes: Revision that limits the use of this document to post 1970.
- Approved November 14, 2003
PDF 168 KB (23 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0006 Rev-00
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TIB 6: Interpretation of External Dosimetry Records at Savannah River Site (SRS)
- Revised February 20, 2004
PDF 16 KB (3 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-006 Rev-01
Revision Includes: Revised discussion of shallow dose interpretation for
low energy photons.
- Approved September 8, 2003
PDF 683 KB (6 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-006 Rev-00
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TIB 7: Neutron Exposures at the Savannah River Site
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TIB 7: Occupational Dose from Elevated Ambient Levels
of External Radiation
- Approved: November 12, 2003
PDF 79 KB (6 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0007 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for
establishing occupational dose from elevated
ambient levels of external radiation.
Note: This document has been cancelled. The information contained in this document has been incorporated into Occupational Onsite Ambient Dose Reconstruction for DOE Sites (ORAUT-PROC-0060). This document is not available on our Web site but is available on request. Please send your request to NIOSH OCAS at: ocas@cdc.gov.
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TIB 8: A Standard Complex-Wide Conversion/Correction Factor for Overestimating
External Doses Measured with Thermoluminescent Dosimeters
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TIB 8: Use of ICRP 66 to Calculate Respiratory Tract Doses
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TIB 9: Technical Information Bulletin in Support of INEEL Technical Basis Document
Section 6: Reanalysis of Hankins MTR Bonner Sphere Surveys
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TIB 10: A Standard Complex-Wide Correction Factor for Overestimating External Doses Measured with Film Badge Dosimeters
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TIB 10: Special External Dose Reconstruction Considerations for Glovebox
Workers
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TIB 11: Lung Dose Conversion Factor for Thoron WLM
- January 13, 2006
PDF 36 KB (8 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-0011 Rev-02
Revision Includes: Correction factors added for ET1 and ET2 regions for Radon 222.
- Revised April 15, 2005
PDF 924 KB (7 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-011 Rev-01
Revision Includes: Correction factors added for ET1 and ET2 regions.
- Approved March 16, 2005
PDF 44 KB (7 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-TIB-011 Rev-00
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TIB 12: Selection of internal and external dosimetry target organs
for lymphatic/hematopoietic cancers
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TIB 17: Interpretation of Dosimetry Data for Assignment of Shallow Dose
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TIB 18: Internal Dose Overestimates for Facilities with Air Sampling Program
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TIB 19: Analysis of Coworker Bioassay Data for Internal Dose Assignment
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TIB 20: Use of Coworker Dosimetry Data for External Dose Assignment
- Revised October 7, 2005
PDF 121 KB (8 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0020 Rev-01
Revision Includes: Provides clarifications and updates to reflect recent OCAS
guidance.
- Approved December 29, 2004
PDF 25 KB (6 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0020 Rev-00
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TIB 21: External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the X-10 Site
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TIB 23: Assignment of Missed Neutron Doses
Based on Dosimeter Records
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TIB 26: External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the K-25 Site
- Revised July 29, 2005
PDF 63 KB (10 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0026 Rev-00 PC-1
Revision Includes: Page change incorporates recent direction from NIOSH regarding
the calculation and use of coworker doses to pages 7, 8, 9, and 10. Text was modified in Sections 6.0
and 7.0. No sections were deleted.
- Approved May 31, 2005
PDF 63 KB (10 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0026 Rev-00
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TIB 27: Supplementary External Dose Information for Rocky Flats
- Approved May 19, 2005
PDF 53 KB (9 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0027 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for supplementary external dose information for Rocky Flats Plant.
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TIB 28: Validation of Thorium Annual Dose Conversion Factors
- Page Change Revision December 8, 2006
PDF 34 KB (7 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0028 Rev-01 PC-1
Page Change Revision Includes: Corrects value in Table 3-2 on page 6 in
Section 3.0 and adds a reference on page 7. No changes occurred as a result of formal internal
and NIOSH review. There is no change to the assigned dose and no PER is required.
- Revised March 7, 2005
PDF 22 KB (7 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0028 Rev-01
Revision Includes: Revised to add Th-228 values.
- Approved February
14, 2005
PDF 27 KB (6 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0028 Rev-00
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TIB 30: External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Hanford Site
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TIB 31: External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
- Page Change Revision August 15, 2005
PDF 65 KB (11 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0031 Rev-00 PC-1
Page Change Revision Includes: Page change incorporates recent
direction from NIOSH regarding the calculation and use of coworker
doses to pages 8 and 10. Text was modified in Sections 7.0 and 8.0.
No sections were deleted.
- Approved May 19, 2005
PDF 65 KB (11 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0031 Rev-00
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TIB 32: External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Savannah River Site
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TIB 35: Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for K-25
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TIB 38: Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
- Approved August 3, 2006
PDF 285 KB (35 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0038 Rev-00
About this Document: New technical information bulletin for assigning Rocky Flats
Environmental Technology Site internal doses based on coworker bioassay data.
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TIB 39: Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for the Hanford Site
- Page Change Revision: January 31, 2007
PDF 843 KB (55 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0039 Rev-00 PC-2
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for assignment of Hanford internal
doses based on coworker bioassay data.
Page Change Revision Includes: Approved page change revision. Revised to change thorium
intakes based on assumption of equal "mass" as uranium; changed equilibrium conditions with progeny in the
thorium chain based on new calculations and included statement of significance of Th-230 to be consistent
with the current Hanford internal dosimetry TBD. Changes occurred on pages 33, 34, and 35. In Table 6-9 on
page 35, in Section 6.7, corrected error in fission product intake in 1944-47 and adjusted I-131 intakes to
be consistent with the Hanford Internal Dosimetry TBD. Made corrections to Table A-1 on page 38 in Attachment
A. Incorporates internal and NIOSH formal review comments. The discussion and tables in Section 6.8 about
radionuclides not measured in this study was removed. It is addressed in ORAUT-TKBS-0006-5. The pages affected
by these changes are 23, 28, 30, and 32. This revision results in a reduction in assigned dose and no PER is
required. No sections were deleted. Section 6.0: added Pu mixture statement consistent with Table in Section 5.1.
Section 6.2: replaced sentence indicating all uranium exposure meant thorium exposure and referenced the Hanford
internal dosimetry TBD for buildings and periods of thorium exposure. Clarified that thorium at PUREX would be
Type M. In Table 6-4, corrected Type S intake for 1962-70 to 60.0 pCi/d; corrected PUREX type M intake to 0.957
based on type F. Added footnotes. Removed Table 6-5 on impurities in RU and referenced the TBD.
- Page Change Revision January 6, 2006
PDF 456 KB (54 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0039 Rev-00 PC-1
Page Change Revision Includes: Corrects errors in units in Table 5-10 (page 27),
Table 5-14 (page 28), Table 6-8 (page 33) and 6-10 (page 34). Corrects a value error in Table 6-9
(311.9 instead of 300 in the fifth column, page 33). Provides new guidance on how to assign
radionuclides to unmonitored workers based on worker location, consistent with Hanford internal
dosimetry TBD (Section 6.8, page 35). Corrects errors in Table 6-13 on page 36. No sections were
deleted.
- Approved October 28, 2005
PDF 455 KB (54 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0039 Rev-00
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TIB 40: External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
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TIB 49: Estimating Doses for Plutonium Strongly
Retained in the Lung
- December 18, 2007
PDF 341 KB (56 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0049 Rev-01
Revision includes: Incorporates guidance on the application of
Super S adjustment factors to coworker-derived intakes. No further
changes occurred as a result of formal internal review. Incorporates
NIOSH formal review comments.
- Approved: February 6, 2007
PDF 267 KB (52 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0049 Rev-00
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TIB 50: Use of Rocky Flats Neutron Dose Reconstruction Project Data in Dose Reconstructions
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TIB 52: Parameters to Consider When Processing Claims for Construction
Trade Workers
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TIB 54: Fission and Activation Product
Assignment for Internal Dose-Related Gross Beta and Gross Gamma Analyses
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TIB 58: External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Rocky Flats Plant
- Page Change Revision March 29, 2007
PDF 90 KB (16 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0058 Rev-01 PC-1
Page Change Revision Includes: Corrects errors in the steps on
pages 9 and 10 of Section 7.0. Step 3 was combined with Step 4 in
Rev 01. This resulted in a renumbering of the steps. Step 7 in Rev
01 was redundant and was deleted. Tables 7-3 and 7-6 were
removed based on comments from NIOSH. In addition, data for
1969 and 1970 was updated based on an analysis of the HIS-20
dataset with readings of "zero" removed. No further changes
occurred as a result of formal internal review. Recalculated coworker
dose distributions for 1969-70 in Tables 7.1, 7.2, 7.3. 7.4 on pages
11, 12, 13, and 14. Attributions and Annotations Section was added
on page 15. This revision results in no change to the assigned dose
and no PER is required.
- Revised January 8, 2007
PDF 90 KB (17 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0058 Rev-01
Revision Includes: Approved Revision 01 due to the release of ORAUT-OTIB-0052
Rev 00 and comments received from NIOSH. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document. Incorporates internal formal
review comments. Incorporates NIOSH formal review comments and additional information found regarding neutron to photon
ratios for the period 1970-1976. Added Table 6-2. This revision results in an increase in assigned dose and a PER is
required.
- Approved May 12, 2006
PDF 136 KB (13 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0058 Rev-00
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