[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 24]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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.