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| Title | Columbia River pathway report |
| Publication Date | 1991 Jul 01 |
| OSTI Identifier | OSTI ID: 5578734; Legacy ID: DE91016440 |
| Report Number(s) | PNL-7411-HEDR-Rev.1 |
| DOE Contract Number | AC06-76RL01830 |
| Other Number(s) | Other: ON: DE91016440 |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
| Research Org | Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States) |
| Sponsoring Org | DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States) |
| Subject | 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; COLUMBIA RIVER; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; DRINKING WATER; FISHES; FOOD CHAINS; HANFORD RESERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; CONTAMINATION; DOSE EQUIVALENTS; DOSE RATES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; HUMAN POPULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; DOSES; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MASS TRANSFER; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POPULATIONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RIVERS; STREAMS; SURFACE WATERS; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; VERTEBRATES; WASTES; WATER |
| Description/Abstract | This report summarizes the river-pathway portion of the first phase of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project. The HEDR Project is estimating radiation doses that could have been received by the public from the Department of Energy's Hanford Site, in southeastern Washington State. Phase 1 of the river-pathway dose reconstruction effort sought to determine whether dose estimates could be calculated for populations in the area from above the Hanford Site at Priest Rapids Dam to below the site at McNary Dam from January 1964 to December 1966. Of the potential sources of radionuclides from the river, fish consumption was the most important. Doses from drinking water were lower at Pasco than at Richland and lower at Kennewick than at Pasco. The median values of preliminary dose estimates calculated by HEDR are similar to independent, previously published estimates of average doses to Richland residents. Later phases of the HEDR Project will address dose estimates for periods other than 1964--1966 and for populations downstream of McNary Dam. 17 refs., 19 figs., 1 tab. |
| Country of Publication | United States |
| Language | English |
| Format | Medium: X; Size: Pages: (96 p) |
| Availability | OSTI; NTIS; INIS; GPO Dep. |
| System Entry Date | 2008 Feb 07 |
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