b'U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY| Office of Nuclear EnergyOffice of Nuclear Energy Facilities,Operations, and SecurityRADIOLOGICAL ANDDOE-IDs RESL managed DOELAP,to test laboratories capabilities to ENVIRONMENTALwhich is required by 10 CFR 835 for allaccurately measure these isotopes. SCIENCES LABORATORYradiation-monitoring programs. ThereThe chelating effect was thought HIGHLIGHTS: are currently 27 programs across theto come from workers drinking DOE complex that are accredited andexcessive carbonated beverages that Irradiated over 2,000monitor dose to approximately 70,000use a chelator as a preservative. The dosimeters and madefederal employees, contractors, andtest was a success! Currently used more than 500 radiologicalsubcontractors, as well as memberschemical-separation methods dont performance testingof the public who have worked in orhave any problems.materials entered controlled areas monitored for exposure to radiation. OverRESLs MAPEP tests laboratories that Produced the worlds first- 180,000 measurements are made eachanalyze environmental samples for of-a-kind lung phantomyear. RESL accredited the dosimetryDOE. The results from this program containing thorium-232 and radiobioassay programs atare used for every DOE site to fulfill Argonne National Laboratory, Eastquality assurance requirements in 40 Produced the first-everCFR 61 and DOE Order 458.1 and are chelated plutonium andTennessee Technical Park, Hanford, Los Alamos National Laboratory,used to demonstrate measurement uranium in real urine capability in INLs Annual Site Nevada Nuclear Security Site, Sandia Produced more thanNational Laboratory, and Oak RidgeEnvironmental Report.1,200 environmentalNational Laboratory. RESL tested 70 U.S.-based commercial performance testinglaboratories and 28 international samples and evaluatedThe RESL staff irradiated more than 2,000 dosimeters and made over 500laboratories from the International over 5,000 analytical results Atomic Energy Agency, United radiological-performance testing Analyzed more than 200materials, including radiologicalKingdom, Canada, United Arab samples with hard-to- urine, fecal, thyroid phantoms, lungEmirates, Spain, Oman, Malaysia, detect radionuclides forphantoms, and whole-body phantomsMonaco, Austria, Jordan, New Zealand, NRC for DOEs radiation-worker monitoringand the Republic of South Africa.programs to ensure that they canRESL is the NRCs radiological Generated more than 1,000produce accurate results.results from analyzing 180reference laboratory, and it analyzed water samples for USGS RESL produced the worlds first-of- over 200 samples with hard-to-detect a-kind lung phantom containingradionuclides from decommissioning thorium-232. projects at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, U.S. Navy Surface RESL produced the first-ever chelatedShip Support Barge, and Zion Nuclear plutonium and uranium in real urinePower Station. The samples required 32'