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Audit of NRC’s Oversight of Industrial Radiography

Report Information

Date Issued
Report Number
OIG-12-A-15
Report Type
Audit
Joint Report
No
Agency Wide
No (location specific)
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0

Recommendations

Require license reviewers to write radiography licenses in a manner that clearly and consistently specifies whether or not licensees are authorized to conduct certain activities (such as offshore, lay-barge, or underwater radiography).

Require license reviewers to write radiography licenses in a manner that clearly and consistently specifies whether or not licensees are authorized to conduct certain activities (such as offshore, lay-barge, or underwater radiography).

Revise NRC inspection guidance to define the NRC radiography licensees’ location that must be inspected each inspection cycle.

Revise NRC inspection guidance to include a reliable methodology to select NRC radiography licensee field stations for inspection.

Revise NRC inspection guidance to require NRC inspectors to take additional steps to arrange a temporary job site inspection for an NRC licensee that has not had a temporary job site inspection for a defined minimum number of consecutive routine inspections.