Below regulatory concern owners group: Individual and population impacts from BRC (below regulatory concern) waste treatment and disposal
Using the IMPACTS-BRC and PRESTO-EPA-POP codes, researchers calculated potential individual and population doses for routine and unexpected radiation exposures resulting from the transportation and disposal of BRC nuclear power plant wastes. These calculations provided a basis for establishing annual curie and radionuclide concentration limits for BRC treatment and disposal. EPRI has initiated a program to develop a petition for rulemaking to NRC that would allow management of certain very low activity nuclear power plant waste types as below regulatory concern (BRC), thus exempting these wastes from requirements for burial at licensed low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities. The technical information required to support the BRC petition includes an assessment of radiologic impacts resulting from the proposed exemption, based on estimated individual and population doses that might result from BRC treatment and disposal of nuclear power plant wastes. 13 figs., 31 tabs.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Rogers and Associates Engineering Corp., Salt Lake City, UT (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5901000
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-NP-5680
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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