What's New

Attached is a new development from Argonne National Laboratory. It is a discussion and pictures of a neutron rig to be used for source checks of neutron survey instrumentation.

A change notice has been added to DOE-STD-1098-2008. Section 211, page 2-3, paragraph 1, a sentence was added: "Approval by the appropriate Secretarial Officer or designee should be required prior to allowing an individual to exceed 2,000 millirem in a year." This statement was inadvertently left out of the 2008 revision. It appears in the original standard DOE-STD-1098-99. Therefore DOE is not adding anything new by this action. This change merely restores what was deleted. An updated copy of the standard is available at: http://www.hss.energy.gov/HealthSafety/WSHP/radiation/ts.html

Issuance of Safety Advisory: HS11 staff issued a Safety Advisory entitled, "Use of Grinding Wheels containing Uranium." This advisory addresses the hazards of using grinding wheels containing uranium and gives a list of good practices to minimize contamination and exposure. See http://www.hss.energy.gov/CSA/csp/advisory/SA_2009-01.pdf

Issuance of Technical Standard: HS-11 staff completed a rewrite of technical standard "DOE-STD-1128-2008, Guide of Good Practices for Occupational Radiological Protection in Plutonium Facilities." The standard was rewritten to be consistent with the June 2007 amendment to 10 CFR 835 "Occupational Radiation Protection" where the Department updated its methodology for assessing internal doses from intakes of radioactive material. The standard is available at: http://www.hss.energy.gov/HealthSafety/WSHP/radiation/ts.html

Radiological Worker (RW) Training Materials (DOE-HDBK-1130-2008)
Including:  Appendix A - Radiological Control Training for Supervisors
                 Appendix B - Radiological Contamination Control for Laboratory Research
                 Appendix C - Radiological Safety Training for Radiation-Producing (X-Ray) Devices