U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Chemistry and Radiation Protection Technician Training and Qualifications
HPPOS-067 PDR-9111210253
Title: Chemistry and Radiation Protection Technician
Training and Qualifications
See the memorandum from D. P. Allison to F. A. Wenslawski
dated March 28, 1984. If a technician fills a dual role as
a responsible HP / Chem Tech, then 2 years experience in each
area is necessary. Common areas may exist so that an
experience period of less than 4 years could be acceptable.
Preoperational, design, construction, and startup
experience can be counted as well as operational
experience. HPPOS-020, HPPOS-062, and HPPOS-096 contain
related topics.
Technicians filling responsible positions in a specialty
are required to have two years experience in that
specialty. Therefore, if a technician is fulfilling a dual
role (as a responsible HP / Chem Tech), then a total of four
years experience (two in each area) is required by ANSI
N18.1-1971. IE understands that common areas of chemistry
and radiation protection may exist, so that some experience
period less than four years could be acceptable for full,
dual-specialty qualification. The overall goal of the TS
requirement is to ensure that technicians filling
responsible positions have the necessary experience,
education, and skill to perform their assigned functions
during normal and abnormal conditions.
Nuclear power plant preoperational experience, as well as
design, construction, startup, and operations, can count on
a one-for-one basis toward the two-year experience
requirement defined in Section 4.1 of the ANSI standard.
The licensee must make definitive applicability assessments
of any type of experience as it relates to the technicians
current or projected job responsibilities. Well documented
training programs, structured to specific job functions,
should form the basis for licensee qualification
assessments.
Regulatory references: ANSI N18.1-1971, Technical
Specifications
Subject codes: 1.1, 1.2
Applicability: Reactors
