Health, Safety and Environment Department, Environmental Sciences Branch. Progress report, January-June 1980
- ed.
A summary is presented of activities of the Environmental Studies and Environmental Analysis Groups during the period January through June 30, 1980. Four major projects are reported; namely, dust transport including filter efficiency studies, distribution of transuranics in sediment, critical ecological pathways for radionuclides, and ecosystem compartmentalization of transuranics. Progress is described for the special programs dealing with management of open space lands at Rocky Flats, assurance of quality in environmental monitoring measurements, assessment of epidemiological studies of health effects purported to be related to the Plant, and evaluation of environmental monitoring data. Some of the reported project activities on Rocky Flats Plant site include studies of: airborne dust concentration and specific americium-241 activity in the field east of the asphalt pad; vertical fluxes of dust in the same field; vertical sediment sampling profiles of plutonium-239, -240 and americium-241 in the Great Western Reservoir spillway; radiological sediment sampling of water bodies on and near the Plant site; measured frequency and coverage values of representative plant species and their importance values for two test plots near the Plant; transuranic specific activities of vegetation from the same two test plots; airborne deposition and root uptake of transuranics by plants at the Lindsay Ranch Pond and the greenhouse site; and tissue analysis (for transuranics) of deer road-killed near or on the Plant site.
- Research Organization:
- Rockwell International Corp., Golden, CO (USA). Rocky Flats Plant
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP03533
- OSTI ID:
- 6198691
- Report Number(s):
- RFP-3197; ON: DE81027696; TRN: 81-014193
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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