[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 23]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR190.10]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 190_ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION PROTECTION STANDARDS FOR NUCLEAR POWER 
OPERATIONS--Table of Contents
 
      Subpart B_Environmental Standards for the Uranium Fuel Cycle
 
Sec. 190.10  Standards for normal operations.


    Operations covered by this subpart shall be conducted in such a 
manner as to provide reasonable assurance that:
    (a) The annual dose equivalent does not exceed 25 millirems to the 
whole body, 75 millirems to the thyroid, and 25 millirems to any other 
organ of any member of the public as the result of exposures to planned 
discharges of radioactive materials, radon and its daughters excepted, 
to the general environment from uranium fuel cycle operations and to 
radiation from these operations.
    (b) The total quantity of radioactive materials entering the general 
environment from the entire uranium fuel cycle, per gigawatt-year of 
electrical energy produced by the fuel cycle, contains less than 50,000 
curies of krypton-85, 5 millicuries of iodine-129, and 0.5 millicuries 
combined of plutonium-239 and other alpha-emitting transuranic 
radionuclides with half-lives greater than one year.