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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL or X-10)
(Site Profile Number 023)

Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Also Known As: Clinton Laboratories

Site Profile

  1. Introduction
    (Approved August 11, 2004)
    this document in PDF PDF 101 KB (7 pages)


  2. Site Description
    (Revised August 17, 2007)
    this document in PDF PDF 824 KB (79 pages)

    Revision Includes: Initiated to add Attributions and Annotations section. Added references and made editorial changes. Incorporates formal internal review comments.


  3. Occupational Medical Dose
    (Revised October 1, 2007)
    this document in PDF PDF 137 KB (29 pages)

    Revision Includes: Initiated to include Attribution and Annotation section. Incorporates formal internal review comments most of which were editorial and pertained to more than the added Attributions and Annotations section. Table 3-6 had the factor of two removed that was applied to the organ dose values for the ovaries, testes, and uterus. Incorporates formal NIOSH review comments.


  4. Occupational Environmental Dose
    (Approved May 7, 2004)
    this document in PDF PDF 266 KB (41 pages)


  5. Occupational Internal Dose
    (Revised October 1, 2007)
    this document in PDF PDF 1.4 MB (74 pages)

    Revision Includes: Initiated to include Attributions and Annotations, Purpose and Scope sections. Revised Section 5.4. Made editorial changes. No further changes occurred as a result of formal internal review. Incorporates formal NIOSH review comments.


  6. Occupational External Dose
    (Revised September 10, 2007)
    this document in PDF PDF 443 KB (92 pages)

    Revision Includes: Initiated to include Attributions and Annotations, Purpose, and Scope sections, and additional references. Made editorial changes. Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments.


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Technical Information Bulletins (TIBs)

  • External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the X-10 Site
    (Revised November 7, 2006)
    this document in PDF 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.

    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.

  • Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for X-10
    (Approved December 13, 2005)
    this document in PDF 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.

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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. A Program Evaluation Plan (PEP) describes plans for evaluating specific program details or issues.

At the current time, no PERs or PEPs specific to X-10 have been developed. However, we have developed PERs and PEPs that pertain to multiple sites. To view all PERs and PEPs that have been developed, please refer to the Program Evaluation Reports (PERs) and Program Evaluation Plans (PEPs) page.

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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 X-10:

  • April 5, 2005
    Meeting with Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America; International Guards Union of America

    Final Minutes
    this document in PDF PDF 67 KB (9 pages)

  • November 9, 2004
    Meeting with Knoxville Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO

    Final Minutes
    this document in PDF PDF 32 KB (5 pages)

  • November 8, 2004
    Meeting with Oak Ridge National Laboratory Atomic Trades and Labor Council

    Final Minutes
    this document in PDF PDF 39 KB (7 pages)

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Comments on X-10 Documents

How to Submit Comments
Comments on X-10 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 (023) on all comments.

Comments Received

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Special Exposure Cohort Petition Information for X-10

  • Submissions Not Qualifying for Evaluation
    Three separate submissions were received but did not qualify for evaluation because they did not meet the minimum petition requirements.

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Previous Versions of X-10 Documents

  • Site Profile: Site Description
    • Revised August 30, 2006
      this document in PDF PDF 1.2 MB (80 pages)

      Revision Includes: Constitutes a total rewrite as a result of biennial review. Text was revised to reflect recent construction and other site changes. In addition, the revision added guidance in Section 2.2.55 that maintenance workers should be evaluated using coworker data when appropriate, in response to comments received from the Worker Outreach Meeting with the Oak Ridge Atomic Trades and Labor Council on November 8, 2004. No further changes occurred as a result of internal formal review. Incorporates NIOSH formal review comments. This revision results in no change to the assigned dose.


    • Approved November 14, 2003
      this document in PDF PDF 814 KB (66 pages)


  • Site Profile: Occupational Medical Dose section
    • Page Change Revision July 21, 2006
      this document in PDF PDF 208 KB (27 pages)

      Page Change Revision Includes: Approved page change revision initiated to incorporate recent direction from NIOSH to include details for the definition of a DOE facility on page 5 in Section 3.1. Adds Purpose and Scope sections on page 6. Revised to delete the uterus as a surrogate organ to the ovaries on page 15 in Section 3.5 and on page 24 in Table 3-7 in Section 3.4. Makes corrections in Table 3-5 on pages 20 and 21 and in Table 3-6 on pages 22 and 23 in Section 3.6. Incorporates NIOSH formal review comments. No sections were deleted.


    • Revised October 29, 2004
      this document in PDF PDF 223 KB (26 pages)

      Revision Includes: Revised to remove 25% timing error correction from ESE and organ dose values from PA chest exams between 1964 and 1990.


    • Site Profile: Occupational Medical Dose section
      Approved April 20, 2004
      this document in PDF PDF 196 KB (27 pages)

  • Site Profile: Occupational Internal Dose
    • Page Change Revision May 30, 2006
      this document in PDF PDF 1.5 MB (70 pages)

      Page Change Revision Includes: Update required language in the Introduction on page 8 in Section 5.1. Adds Section 5.4 on pages 28 and 29 on using air monitoring data to assign best estimates of internal dose for unmonitored ORNL workers during the 1944-1947 period. Makes reference changes on pages 30 and 32 in the Reference Section. Adds Attachment 5B, on pages 67, 68, 69, and 70, which gives the technical justification for this protocol. No changes occurred as a result of internal formal review. Incorporates NIOSH formal review comments. No sections were deleted.


    • Approved June 29, 2004
      this document in PDF PDF 1.4 MB (64 pages)

  • Site Profile: Occupational External Dose
    (Approved August 11, 2004)
    this document in PDF PDF 496 KB (82 pages)

  • Technical Information Bulletin: External Coworker Dosimetry Data for the X-10 Site
    (Approved December 29, 2004)
    this document in PDF PDF 38 KB (8 pages)

    Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0021 Rev-00

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Page last updated: September 11, 2007
Page last reviewed: May 30, 2008
Content Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

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