part_subject: "PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION PROTECTION STANDARDS FOR YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Public Health and Environmental Standards for Disposal"
section_number: "197.20"
section_subject: "What standard must DOE meet?"
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 197.20"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Parts 190 to 259"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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(a)The DOE must demonstrate, using performance assessment, that there is a reasonable expectation that the reasonably maximally exposed individual receives no more than the following annual committed effective dose equivalent from releases from the undisturbed Yucca Mountain disposal system:
(1)150 microsieverts (15 millirems) for 10,000 years following disposal; and
(2)1 millisievert (100 millirems) after 10,000 years, but within the period of geologic stability.
(b)The DOE's performance assessment must include all potential pathways of radionuclide transport and exposure.