What are the anticipated impacts of updating the regulations?
The nature and extent of impacts will greatly depend on the options that might be used to resolve the key issues discussed above. Consequently, the NRC staff is actively engaging stakeholders and interested parties to ensure that we have sufficient knowledge of the potential benefits, burdens, and impacts associated with further alignment of the NRC’s existing radiation protection regulations with the 2007 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), as detailed in ICRP Publication 103. (As a starting point, the NRC’s Synopsis of ICRP Publication 103 discusses the broad implications of the recommendations.) The NRC will utilize the feedback received from stakeholders and interested parties in drafting the appropriate technical basis and recommending rulemaking changes to the Commission.
