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Audit of NRC's Oversight of Medical Uses of Nuclear Material

Report Information

Date Issued
Report Number
OIG-16-A-02
Report Type
Audit
Joint Report
Yes
Participating OIG
Nuclear Regulatory Commission OIG
Agency Wide
Yes (agency-wide)
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0

Recommendations

Clearly define the purpose of medical event reporting in apublicly available document and clarify the reportingrequirements.

Proactively provide all medical licensees with medical eventtracking/trending information for lessons-learned purposes.

Develop and implement policy and procedures that requireperiodic assessments of NRC's approach to medical eventreporting. These assessments should include whetheri. The intended purpose of the reporting requirementsis being met.ii. The thresholds of the reporting requirements areappropriate.

Develop and implement policy and procedures to guideprovision of sufficiently detailed and timely feedback to ACMUIfrom NRC staff.