Re: NRC requirements on retention of film

[sandy_perle@email.fpl.com]

     I'll make a futile stab at this request. I would assume that the only 
     requirements are that the records be maintained and not the specific 
     film. I say that because if one utilizes a TLD for dose of record, 
     once the TLD is read, the TLD loses all of the associated parameters 
     that led to the exposure and subsequent does assigned. It is true that 
     the NRC in 10 CFR Part 20 requires that personnel monitoring records 
     be maintained for the life of the license. For survey results it is 
     only 3 years. The American Nuclear Insurers (ANI) requires that all 
     power plants maintain records for life of plant + 10 years (this goes 
     beyond NRC requirements). 
     
     I for one believe that it is prudent to maintain all records and any 
     other pertinent information when it comes to radiation records. They 
     can help you but on the other hand, they could harm you, based on what 
     the records state. It is again a business decision. I believe the more 
     information you have, especially after some time has passed, the 
     better able you will be to reconstruct the assignment of a dose of 
     record.
     
     Sandy Perle
     Supervisor Health Physics
     
     sandy_perle@email.fpl.com


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Subject: NRC requirements on retention of film
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet-Mail
Date:    8/21/95 9:53 AM



We at DOE are involved in discussions with National Archives on the recommended
retention times for processed film (not the recorded results from).  Would 
appreciate hearing from NRC licensees about any specifics incorporated into
licenses or technical specifications.  All I could find in Part 20 was in
20.2106(f) which requires maintaining records of individual monitoring
results until the Commission terminates the license requiring the record.
However, it doesn't specifically reference processed file.