Radiation Dose Reconstruction

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
(Site Profile/Docket Number 054)

Laboratory: Livermore, California

Also Known As: California Radiation Laboratory

Site Profile

1. Introduction
   (Page Change Revision, September 12, 2005)
   PDF 110 KB (9 pages)
   
   Page Change Revision Includes: Page change initiated to incorporate recent direction from NIOSH to include DOL review comments on page 5. Text was modified in Section 1.1. No sections were deleted. Page 5 was changed.
   
   
2. Site Description
   (Page change revision October 26, 2005)
   PDF 727 KB (22 pages)
   
   Page Change Revision Includes: Page change initiated to incorporate recent direction from NIOSH to include DOL review comments on page 6. No sections were deleted.
   
   
3. Occupational Medical Dose
   (Revised August 27, 2010)
   PDF 248 KB (20 pages)
   
   Revision Includes: Organ dose from lateral and oblique chest projections that were taken on some workers but not initially listed in the records submitted by LLNL. Also included are skin doses for all projections and periods. Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document.
   
   
4. Occupational Environmental Dose
   (Approved March 16, 2010)
   PDF 1.4 MB (43 pages)
   
   Revision Includes: Adds Attributions and Annotations section. Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments. Incorporates additional data on environmental neutron measurements and SEC Class recommended by NIOSH. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document.
   
   
5. Occupational Internal Dose
   (Revised December 13, 2010)
   PDF 1 MB (107 pages)
   
   Revision Includes: Updates Table B-9 uranium 95th percentile coworker intakes for those time periods that were based on the 50th percentile intakes with a GSD that were rounded up to 3. The previous revision used the actual GSDs in Table B-8 that were less than 3 to determine the 95th percentile coworker intakes for those time periods. Added information pertaining to solubility types for aged related fission products for P-32 and C-14 in Section 5.3.2.3 and added associated footnotes to Tables B-25 and B-26. Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments.
   
   
6. Occupational External Dose
   (Revised February 26, 2010)
   PDF 1 MB (81 pages)
   
   Revision Includes: Incorporates LLNL measured personnel doses, LLNL document collections and to respond to comments. Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document.

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Technical Information Bulletins (TIBs)

• Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  (Approved February 16, 2007)
  PDF 315 KB (23 pages)
  
  Document Number: ORAUT-OTIB-0065 Rev-00
  
  About this document: TIB for assignment of LLNL internal doses based on coworker bioassay data.
  
  Approved: February 16, 2007

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Program Evaluation Reports (PERs) and Program Evaluation Plans (PEPs)

NIOSH is committed to applying the best available science in dose reconstructions. In keeping with this commitment, completed cases with probabilities of causation less than 50% are reviewed as relevant new information becomes available. The results of these reviews are described in a Program Evaluation Report (PER). The PER details the effect, if any, of the new information on the completed dose reconstruction. If it appears that the new information may result in an increase in dose for a completed dose reconstruction with a probability of causation of less than 50%, NIOSH is committed to working with the Department of Labor to reopen and rework the dose reconstruction, as appropriate. A Program Evaluation Plan (PEP) describes plans for evaluating specific program details or issues.

At the current time, no PERs or PEPs specific to LLNL have been developed. However, we have developed PERs and PEPs that pertain to multiple sites. To view all PERs and PEPs that have been developed, please refer to the Program Evaluation Reports (PERs) and Program Evaluation Plans (PEPs) page.

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Worker Outreach Activities

Based on a recommendation from the Advisory Board to provide workers and site experts with opportunities to participate in developing the technical documents used in dose reconstruction, NIOSH established a Worker Outreach Program.

At Worker Outreach Meetings, current and former DOE and AWE employees have opportunities to obtain information about Site Profiles, Technical Basis Documents, and Technical Information Bulletins, and to provide information for consideration and possible use in dose reconstruction. This process is valuable to ensure that the technical documents used in dose reconstruction contain correct and useful information.

Below are the Worker Outreach Activities for LLNL:

• March 22, 2006
  Meeting with current employees of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, hosted by the Society of Professionals, Scientists and Engineers/University Professional and Technical Employees/Communications Workers of America Local 9119, AFL-CIO
  
  Final Minutes
  PDF 55 KB (7 pages)
  
  
• March 22, 2006
  Meeting with The Society of Professional, Scientists and Engineers/University Professional and Technical Employees/Communications Workers of America Local 9119 (SPSE), in Livermore, California
  
  Final Minutes
  PDF 129 KB (30 pages)
  
  
• March 21, 2006
  Meeting with Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO, Oakland, California
  
  Final Minutes
  PDF 79 KB (13 pages)
  
  
• November 30, 2004
  Meeting with Alameda County Building and Construction Trades Council, Society of Professional Scientists and Engineers/University Professional and Technical Employees
  
  Final Minutes
  PDF 48 KB (7 pages)

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Comments on LLNL Documents

How to Submit Comments
Comments on LLNL documents can be submitted to the NIOSH Docket Officer electronically by e-mail at NIOCINDOCKET@cdc.gov or printed comments can be mailed to NIOSH Docket Office, Robert A. Taft Laboratories, MS-C34, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226. Please include the Site Profile/Docket Number (054) on all comments.

• Working Draft: SC&A Review of the Evaluation Report for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Special Exposure Cohort: In-Vivo Counting Time Period Issue
  Contract No. 200-2004-03805
  April 11, 2008
  PDF 90 KB (10 pages)
  
  
• Draft: SC&A Review of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site Profile
  Contract No. 200-2004-03805
  Task Order No. 1
  SCA-TR-TASK1-0018, Revision 1
  August 2007
  PDF 1 MB (169 pages)
  
  
• Comments from Jayne Tonowski, President, Society of Professionals, Scientists, and Engineers. Site Profile/Docket Number (054)- SPSE UPTE CWA 9119 AFL-CIO input on the Site Profile for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA).
  PDF 34 KB (4 pages)
  
  
• Comments from Loulena Miles, Staff Attorney, Tri-Valley CAREs. Initial comments on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site Profile #054.
  PDF 82 KB (6 pages)
  
  
• Comments from a private citizen regarding the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Site Profile Complex 321.
  PDF 608 KB (5 pages)

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Special Exposure Cohort Petition Information for LLNL

• SEC Petitions Not Qualifying for Evaluation
  
  In addition to the petitions listed below, one additional petition was received but did not qualify for evaluation because it did not meet the minimum petition requirements.
  
  
• Classes Added to the SEC
  
  
  • Employees of the Department of Energy (DOE), its predecessor agencies, and DOE contractors or subcontractors who were monitored for radiation exposure while working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973, for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days or in combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in the SEC
    
    
  • All employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors who worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California from January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973, for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either solely under this employment or in combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in the SEC
    
    
• Petitions Qualified for Evaluation
  
  
  1. Location: All areas
     
     Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All workers
     
     Period of Employment: January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973
     
     
  2. Location: Livermore, California
     
     Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors
     
     Period of Employment: January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973
     
     
• Federal Register Notice Announcing that the LLNL SEC Petition has met the Minimum Qualifications for Review and Evaluation
  
  
  1. Federal Register Notice Announcing that the LLNL SEC Petition has met the Minimum Qualifications for Review and Evaluation (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     (July 30, 2007)
     PDF 75 KB (1 page)
     
     
  2. Federal Register Notice Announcing that the LLNL SEC Petition has met the Minimum Qualifications for Review and Evaluation (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     (January 29, 2010)
     PDF 73 KB (1 page)
     
     
• Copy of the Petition Received
  
  
  1. Copy of an LLNL SEC Petition received (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     (June 27, 2007)
     PDF 260 KB (1 page)
     
     
  2. Copy of an LLNL SEC Petition received (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     (January 21, 2010)
     PDF 142 KB (2 pages)
     
     
• SEC Petition Evaluation Report
  
  
  1. Copy of the SEC Evaluation Report for LLNL (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     (Approved December 13, 2007)
     PDF 176 KB (33 pages)
     
     
  2. Copy of the SEC Evaluation Report for LLNL (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     (Approved January 22, 2010)
     PDF 91 KB (19 pages)
     
     
• Petition to be Discussed by the Advisory Board
  
  
  1. The petition was discussed by the Advisory Board on January 8, 2008, during its regular meeting. (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     
     
  2. The petition was discussed by the Advisory Board on February 9, 2010, during its regular meeting. (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     
     
• Advisory Board Recommendation on SEC Petition
  
  
  1. Advisory Board Recommendation regarding the LLNL SEC Petition (January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973)
     (January 30, 2008)
      PDF 446 KB (2 pages)
     
     
  2. Advisory Board Recommendation regarding LLNL SEC (January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973)
     (March 5, 2010)
      PDF 43 KB (2 pages)
     
     
• HHS Letters to Congress Regarding the SEC Petition
  
  
  1. HHS Letters to Congress regarding the LLNL SEC Petition (January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973)
     (March 3, 2008)
      PDF 654 KB (55 pages)
     
     
  2. HHS Letters to Congress regarding the LLNL SEC Petition (January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973)
     (April 5, 2010)
      PDF 98 KB (10 pages)
     
     
• Federal Register Notice: Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort
  
  
  1. Designation of a Class of Employees from LLNL to the SEC (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     (March 12, 2008)
      PDF 73 KB (1 page)
     
     
  2. Designation of a Class of Employees from LLNL to the SEC (January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973)
     (April 28, 2010)
     PDF 67 KB (1 page)
     
     
• HHS Designation of Additional Members to the SEC
  
  
  1. HHS Designation regarding the LLNL SEC Petition (January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973)
     (March 3, 2008)
      PDF 40 KB (4 pages)
     
     
  2. HHS Designation regarding the LLNL SEC Petition (January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973)
     (April 5, 2010)
      PDF 42 KB (5 pages)
     
     
• Effective Date for the SEC Class
  
  
  1. April 2, 2008 (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     
     
  2. May 5, 2010 (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     
     
• Federal Register Notice: Final Effect of Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort
  
  
  1. Final Effect of Designation of a Class of Employees from LLNL for Addition to the SEC (January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1973)
     (May 1, 2008)
      PDF 87 KB (1 page)
     
     
  2. Final Effect of Designation of a Class of Employees from LLNL for Addition to the SEC (January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973)
     (May 18, 2010)
      PDF 88 (2 pages)
     
     
• Letter to DOL Regarding the Addition of a New Class of Employees to the SEC
  
  
  1. Letter to DOL Regarding the Addition of a New Class of Employees to the SEC for LLNL
     (April 4, 2008)
     PDF 20 KB (2 pages)
     
     
  2. Letter to DOL Regarding the Addition of a New Class of Employees to the SEC for LLNL (January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973)
     (May 7, 2010)
     PDF 59 KB (1 page)

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Previous Versions of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Documents

• Site Profile: Introduction section
  (Approved July 18, 2005
  PDF 93 KB (8 pages)
  
  
• Site Profile: Site Description section
  (Approved July 29, 2005
  PDF 731 KB (21 pages)
  
  
• Site Profile: Occupational Medical Dose section
  
  
  • Page change revision October 26, 2005
    PDF 146 KB (13 pages)
    
    Page Change Revision Includes: Page change initiated to incorporate recent direction from NIOSH to include DOL review comments on page 5. No sections were deleted.
    
    
  • Approved August 23, 2005
    PDF 131 KB (13 pages)
    
    
• Occupational Environmental Dose
  (Approved November 18, 2005)
  PDF 1.6 MB (27 pages)
  
  
• Site Profile: Occupational Internal Dose
  
  
  • Revised March 16, 2010
    PDF 1 MB (107 pages)
    
    Revision Includes: Incorporates Attributions and Annotations section and Advisory Board comments associated with the issuance of a LLNL SEC Class. Incorporates the internal coworker study (ORAUT-OTIB-0065) into the TBD as Attachment B. Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document.
    
    
  • Approved October 7, 2005
    PDF 505 KB (40 pages)
    
    
• Site Profile: Occupational External Dose section
  
  
  • Revised April 26, 2007
    PDF 217 KB (24 pages)
    
    Revision Includes: Revision to respond to comments by ORAU and Task 5. This revision specifically does not respond to Worker Outreach comments received; which will be addressed in a future revision. Constitutes a total rewrite of the document. Incorporates formal internal and NIOSH review comments. Adds Attributions and Annotations section. This revision results in no change to the assigned dose and no PER is required.
    
    
  • Approved October 7, 2005
    PDF 188 KB (20 pages)

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