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Occupational Radiation Exposure at Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors and Other Facilities 2005 (NUREG-0713, Vol. 27)On this page: Download complete document The following links on this page are to documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). See our Plugins, Viewers, and Other Tools page for more information. For successful viewing of PDF documents on our site please be sure to use the latest version of Adobe. Publication InformationManuscript Completed: November 2006 Prepared by Division of Fuel, Engineering and Radiological Research *Oak Ridge Associated Universities AbstractThis report summarizes the occupational exposure data that are maintained in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) Radiation Exposure Information and Reporting System (REIRS). The bulk of the information contained in the report was compiled from the 2005 annual reports submitted by five of the seven categories1 of NRC licensees subject to the reporting requirements of 10 CFR 20.2206. The annual reports submitted by these licensees consist of radiation exposure records for each monitored individual. These records are analyzed for trends and presented in this report in terms of collective dose and the distribution of dose among the monitored individuals. Because there are no geologic repositories for high-level waste currently licensed, and no low-level waste disposal facilities in operation, only fi ve categories will be considered in this report.
Annual reports for 2005 were received from a total of 218 NRC licensees, of which 104 were operators
In calendar year 2005, the annual collective dose per reactor for light water reactor (LWR) licensees
was 110 person-rem. This represents a 10% increase from the value reported for 2004 (100).
The annual collective dose per reactor for boiling water reactors (BWRs) was 171 person-rem,
and, for pressurized water reactors (PWRs), it was 79 person-rem. 1 Commercial nuclear power reactors; industrial radiographers; fuel processors (including uranium enrichment), fabricators, and reprocessors; manufacturers and distributors of by-product material; independent spent fuel storage installations; facilities for land disposal of low-level waste; and geologic repositories for high-level waste. There are currently no NRC licensees involved in low-level waste disposal or geologic repositories for high-level waste. 2 The number of workers with measurable dose includes any individual with a dose greater than zero rem and does not include doses reported as "not detectable." |
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