Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM
Title 180 - CONTROL OF RADIATION
Chapter 4 - STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION
Section 180-4-004 - RADIATION PROTECTION PROGRAMS
Current through September 17, 2024
Each licensee or registrant must have and follow a radiation protection program as follows.
004.01 RADIATION PROTECTION PROGRAM COMPLIANCE. Each licensee or registrant must develop, document, and implement a radiation protection program sufficient to ensure compliance with the provisions of 180 NAC 4. See 180 NAC 4-047 for recordkeeping requirements relating to these programs.
004.02 AS LOW AS REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE (ALARA). The licensee or registrant must use, to the extent practical, procedures and engineering controls based upon sound radiation protection principles to achieve occupational doses and public doses that are as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA).
004.03 RADIATION PROTECTION PROGRAM REVIEW. The licensee or registrant must, at intervals not to exceed 12 months, review the radiation protection program content and implementation.
004.04 CONSTRAINT ON AIR EMISSIONS. To implement the as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) requirements of 180 NAC 4-004.02 and despite of the requirements in 180 NAC 4-013, a constraint on air emissions of radioactive material to the environment, excluding radon-222 and its daughters must be established by licensees, such that the individual member of the public likely to receive the highest dose will not be expected to receive a total effective dose equivalent in excess of 0.1 mSv (10 mrem) per year from these emissions. If a licensee subject to this requirement exceeds this dose constraint, the licensee must report the exceedance as provided in 180 NAC 4-059 and promptly take appropriate corrective action to ensure against a recurrence.
