Re: Radioactive Effluent Goals

[jack bell <bellstar@erols.com>]

How about ALARA-based goals?

Jack Bell, bellstar@erols.com

Glen.Vickers@ucm.com wrote:

> It seems that many of the goals at power plants are shifting from being
> based on a percentage of a regulatory limit to how well they are doing
> relative to their peers in the industry.  Everyone operates so far below the
> regulatory limit, that it isn't an effective indicator as to how good you
> are.  If the top quartile plants operate at 2% of some limit, then you know
> where your goal is going to be.  I think you should also have performance
> goals for all of the areas in which INPO is interested as a minimum.  That
> should give you a solid foundation to start from.  The INPO evaluation has
> become more important than most people would have envisioned 10 years ago.
>
> glen
> nuclear power hp
> glen.vickers@ucm.com
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Tarantino@vapower.com [SMTP:Tarantino@vapower.com]
>         Sent:   Friday, July 02, 1999 7:24 AM
>         To:     Multiple recipients of list
>         Subject:        Radioactive Effluent Goals
>
>         To power reactor licensees that have radioactive liquid and gaseous
> effluent
>         goals:  What is the basis for your effluent goals?  Are they
> activity based,
>         dose based, or based on a percentage of Appendix I Part 50 dose
> limits?  Does
>         your facility track liquid waste volumes and have goals for this as
> well?
>
>         Please respond e-mail at tarantino@vapower.com.
>
>
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