RSICC CODE PACKAGE PSR-482

 

1.  NAME AND TITLE

REMIT5.1:  Radiation Exposure Monitoring and Information Transmittal System.

 

2.  CONTRIBUTOR

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC and Science Applications International Corporation, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

 

3.  CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

Visual FOXPRO 6; Personal computers (P00482IBMPC01).

 

4.  NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

The Radiation Exposure Monitoring and Information Transmittal (REMIT) system is designed to assist U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensees in meeting the reporting requirements of the Revised 10 CFR Parts 20.1001 through 20.2401 as outlined in Regulatory Guide 8.7, Rev.1, Instructions for Recording and Reporting Occupational Exposure Data. REMIT is a PC‑based menu driven system that facilitates the manipulation of data base files to record and report radiation exposure information. REMIT is designed to be user‑friendly and contains the full text of Regulatory Guide 8.7, Rev.1, on‑line as well as context‑sensitive help throughout the program. The user can enter data directly from NRC Forms 4 or 5. REMIT allows the user to view the individual's exposure in relation to regulatory or administrative limits and will alert the user to exposures in excess of these limits. The system also provides for the calculation and summation of dose from intakes and the determination of the dose to the maximally exposed extremity for the monitoring year. REMIT can produce NRC Forms 4 and 5 in paper and electronic format and can import/export data from ASCII and data base files. Additional information is available from the web page www.reirs.com.

 

5.  METHOD OF SOLUTION

REMIT makes use of the dose conversion factors from EPA Report 11 Limiting Values of Radionuclide Intake and Air Concentration and Dose Conversion Factors for Inhalation, Submission, and Ingestion, to calculate the Commited Dose Equivalent to the maximally exposed organ and the Committed Effective Dose Equivalent from intakes measured in microcuries. REMIT also estimates the amount (in micrograms) of uranium intake from the activity entered in microcuries. This calculation is based on the specific activities of the uranium isotopes.

 

6.  RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

None noted.

 

7.  TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

REMIT is an interactive program.

 

8.  COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

REMIT 5.1 is a Windows version and it will run under Windows 95, Windows 2000, or Windows NT. It will not run under the DOS operating system or 16-bit Windows operating systems.

 

9.  COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

REMIT runs on Pentium computers under 32-bit Windows operating systems including Windows2000 and Windows XP. It is written in Visual FOXPRO 6 and is distributed in executable format. Source files are not included.

 

10. REFERENCES

“REMIT for Windows Version 5.1 Release Notes” (May 22, 2002).

R. Cale, T. Clark, P. Dixson, and D. Hagemeyer, “Radiation Exposure Monitoring and Information Transmittal (REMIT) System, User's Manual,” NUREG/CR‑6050; SAIC-93/1310-01 (June 1993).

 

11. CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

Included are the referenced document and software on a CD.  Software includes REMIT executables, sample problems, databases and installation program.

 

12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

March 2000, revised June 2005.

 

KEYWORDS:   HEALTH PHYSICS DATABASE