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Site Profile
- Introduction
(Revised April 2, 2007)
 PDF 52 KB (8 pages)
Page Change Revision Includes: Incorporates Attributions and Annotations
Section 1.3 and updates the References section. Constitutes a total
rewrite of the document. 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
and no PER is required.
- Site
Description
(Revised May 8, 2007)
PDF 221 KB (31 pages)
Revision Includes: Incorporates Attributions and
Annotations section. No changes occurred as a result of formal
internal review. Incorporates NIOSH formal review comments.
Constitutes a total rewrite of the document. This revision results in
no change to the assigned dose and no PER is required.
- Occupational
Medical Dose
(Revised June 18, 2007)
PDF 180 KB (20 pages)
Revision Includes: Initiated to add Attribution and Annotations
Section. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document. Incorporates
formal internal and NIOSH review comments. This revision results in
no change to the assigned dose and no PER is required.
- Occupational
Environmental Dose
(Revised April 23, 2007)
PDF 841 KB (33 pages)
Revision Includes: Incorporates Attributions and
Annotations section. Rearranged tables and corrected the List of
Tables. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document. Incorporates
formal internal review comments. This revision results in no change to
the assigned dose and no PER is required.
- Occupational
Internal Dose
(Revised April 4, 2007)
PDF 124 KB (25 pages)
Revision Includes: Incorporates Attributions and
Annotations section and improved reference citations in the text. No
further changes occurred as a result of formal internal review. This
revision results in no change to the assigned dose and no PER is
required.
- Occupational
External Dose
(Revised April 4, 2007)
PDF 336 KB (34 pages)
Revision Includes: Incorporates Attributions and
Annotations section. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document.
This revision results in no change to the assigned dose and no PER
is required.
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Technical Information Bulletins (TIBs)
- Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
PDF 106 KB (15 pages)
Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0037 Rev-00
About this Document: Establishes the technical basis for assignment of Paducah
Gaseous Diffusion Plant internal doses based on coworker bioassay data.
Approved: September 20, 2005
- External Coworker Dosimetry Data 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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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.
Program Evaluation Report: Evaluation of the Impact of Changes to the Isotopic Ratios in for the
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
PDF 23 KB (3 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-PER-0013 Rev-00
About this Document: This document provides a list of previously
completed claims that are potentially affected
by a revision to the Paducah isotopic ratios.
Approved: August 13, 2007
Summary: An initial selection of claims was based on the following search criteria:
1. Probability of Causation (POC) less than 50%
2. Dose Reconstructions completed prior to November 7, 2006.
These criteria were used to produce a list of 734 potentially affected claims. NIOSH will provide this list to DOL and request these claims be returned for a new dose reconstruction. The new dose reconstruction will be completed using all the current methodology which will account for any other changes affecting these claims.
Program Evaluation Plan: Evaluation of the Impact of Changes to the Isotopic Ratios in for the
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
PDF 20 KB (2 pages)
Document Number: OCAS-PEP-0013 Rev-00
About this Document: October 25, 2006, Revision 01 of ORAUT-TKBS-0019-5, Occupational Internal Dose was issued as part of the biennial review process. During the biennial revision of this TBD section, the information provided in existing document was evaluated to ensure that the published isotopic ratios for transuranic (TRU) radionuclides meet the criteria of providing either an accurate or maximum dose estimate. The results of the evaluation indicated that the current ratios did not meet that goal. Information provided in existing references (particularly PACE and the University of Utah, 2000; BJC, 2000), as well as that found in a new reference was assessed with the result that new TRU isotopic ratios were developed and are included in the TBD as Tables 5-2 and 5-2a in the revised document.
On November 7, 2006 Revision 01 of ORAUT-TKBS-0019-4, Occupational Environmental Dose was issued. A revaluation of the source data for ORAUT-TKBS-0019-5 led to a revision to the TRU isotopic ratios (relative to uranium) for estimating dose from these radionuclides. In addition, the authors have been able to categorize these ratios according to specific processes and periods as described below in conjunction with ORAUT-TKBS-0019-5.
Approved: March 21, 2007
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Miscellaneous Documents
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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 the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant:
- February 11, 2005
Meeting with Western Kentucky Building and Construction Trades Council
Final minutes
PDF 35 KB (6 pages)
- February 10, 2005
Meeting with PACE Local 5-550 and SPFPA Local 111
Final minutes
PDF 57 KB (12 pages)
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Comments on Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Documents
How to Submit Comments
Comments on Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant 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 (030) on all comments.
Comments Received
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Special Exposure Cohort Petition Information for Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
- Submissions Not Qualifying for Evaluation
In addition to the petition listed below, an additional
submission was received but did not qualify for evaluation
because the class defined in the submission was already
included in the SEC.
- Class Added to the SEC
- Gaseous Diffusion Plants--employees who worked at least 250 days before February 1, 1992, at a gaseous diffusion plant in Paducah, Kentucky;
Portsmouth, Ohio; or Oak Ridge, Tennessee and who were or could have been monitored in those jobs
using dosimetry badges
Note: The SEC was established by The Act. The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant was one of the classes that Congress included when The Act was signed.
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Previous Versions of Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Documents
- Site Profile: Introduction
- Page Change Revision August 30, 2006)
PDF 29 KB (6 pages)
Page Change Revision Includes: Approved page change revision to review against
Worker Outreach comments and periodic revision. Updates required language on page 4 in Section 1.0. No sections were deleted. No further changes occurred as a result of internal formal review. This revision results in no change to the assigned dose.
- Approved September 9, 2004
PDF 87 KB (6 pages)
- Site Profile: Site Description
- Revised August 21, 2006
PDF 178 KB (29 pages)
Revision Includes: This revision addresses comment #2 from the meeting with United
Steelworkers Local 5-550 (formerly PACE) and SPFPA Local 111 held on 02/10/2005. This revision
results in no change to the assigned dose.
- Approved May 7, 2004
PDF 250 KB (23 pages)
- Site Profile: Occupational Medical Dose
- Revised September 26, 2006
PDF 183 KB (22 pages)
Revision Includes: Revised as a result of biennial review. Constitutes a total rewrite
of the document. Incorporates internal formal review comments. Incorporates NIOSH formal review
comments. This revision results in a reduction in assigned dose.
- Approved February 5, 2004
PDF 190 KB (20 pages)
- Occupational Environmental Dose
- Revised November 7, 2006
PDF 799 KB (31 pages)
Revision Includes: Approved Revision 01 initiated to address comments from earlier
unresolved comments received on TBD. Constitutes a total rewrite of
document. Incorporates additional information obtained through
additional data capture for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. This
revision to addresses the Worker Outreach comment: "The use of the
Site Profile is redundant and does not help claimants in any way. The
Site Profile only represents incorrect, inaccurate, and incomplete
information provided by DOE" This revision involved researching
documents to provide a revision which ensured that the most correct,
accurate, and complete information available was used. Text was
added or modified in sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4,and in the Acronyms
and Abbreviations, References, and Glossary. No sections were
deleted. Incorporates internal, NIOSH and DOL formal review
comments. This revision results in an increase in assigned dose and a
PER is required. The increase in assigned dose is based on the
revision to Table 4-2 that adds transuranic exposures in the
environment.
- Approved August 24, 2004
PDF 589 KB (22 pages)
- Occupational Internal Dose
- Page Change Revision January 31, 2007
PDF 117 KB (24 pages)
Page Change Revision Includes: Approved page change revision initiated to correct the title of Table
5-2 on page 10. Modified Table 5-4 on page 13 to consolidate the
years of 1952-1998 onto the first line of the table. Added Table 5-2a
to the List of Tables. Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review
comments. Includes changes to Table 5-2a (page 11). This revision
results in no change to the assigned dose and no PER is required.
- Revised October 25, 2006
PDF 114 KB (24 pages)
Revision Includes: This revision addresses the
comment from the meeting with the United Steelworkers Local 5-550
and SPFPA Local 111 held on 2/10/2005. Constitutes a total rewrite
of document. Incorporates recent direction from NIOSH to include
DOL review comments on page 5. Revisions address corrective
actions responding to OCAS assessment and internal review
comments from Task 5. Changes were made at the end of Section
5.2. The original Table 5-3 has been deleted and replaced with an
expansion of the original Table 5-4, which becomes Table 5-3. Table
5-2 has been updated to reflect new Table numbers. Incorporates
internal and NIOSH formal review comments. This revision results in
an increase in assigned dose and a PER is required.
- Approved September 30, 2004
PDF 233 KB (26 pages)
- Site Profile: Occupational External Dose section
- Revised August 30, 2006
PDF 290 KB (33 pages)
Revision Includes: Initiated to address comments from earlier unresolved
comments received on TBD. Incorporates additional information obtained through additional data
capture for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Incorporates revised standard language into Purpose
section and adds a Scope section. This revision addresses comments from the Worker Outreach meeting with
the United Steelworkers Local 5-550 and Security, Police, Fire Professionals of America Local 111 held on
February 10, 2005. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document. This revision results in a reduction in
assigned dose.
- Revised March 29, 2005
PDF 243 KB (25 pages)
Revision Includes: Incorporates results of additional research and
responses to outstanding comments, formal internal review, and NIOSH comments.
- Approved August 24, 2004
PDF 265 KB (27 pages)
- Technical Information Bulletin: External Coworker Dosimetry Data 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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Page last reviewed: May 30, 2008
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