Value of a Unit of Collective Dose: $200,000/person-Sv

[dj_strom@ccmail.pnl.gov]

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has recently adopted the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) value of $3 million/life; and at 0.07 effect/Sv, the
rounded value of $2000/person-rem is adopted.  This is published here:

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).  1995.  Regulatory Analysis Guidelines
of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 2; Issuance, 
Availability.  Federal Register 60(244):65694-65695; Dec. 20.  

The value $2000/person-rem originally showed up in an NRC Press Release No.  
95-95, Tuesday, August 1, 1995, in a letter from the Advisory Committee on 
Reactor Safeguards.  You can subscribe to NRC press releases on e-mail at the 
Office of Public Affairs, opa@nrc.gov, 301/415-8200.  The press release follows.

Dan Strom dj_strom@pnl.gov

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[Federal Register: December 20, 1995 (Volume 60, Number 244)]
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