Be program at Y-12
National Security Complex
üControlled by US Dept.
of Energy’s Chronic Beryllium Disease
Prevention Program
–10 CFR Part 850
– Promulgated in 1999 to protect DOE workers
from CBD
–Requires Be surface
and air monitoring to determine health risk
–Rule greatly increased
the need for Be analysis in the DOE complex
–Current analytical
methods include ICPOES and GFAA