Radionuclide inventories for the F- and H-area seepage basin groundwater plumes
- Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River National Lab. (SRNL)
Within the General Separations Areas (GSA) at the Savannah River Site (SRS), significant inventories of radionuclides exist within two major groundwater contamination plumes that are emanating from the F- and H-Area seepage basins. These radionuclides are moving slowly with groundwater migration, albeit more slowly due to interaction with the soil and aquifer matrix material. The purpose of this investigation is to quantify the activity of radionuclides associated with the pore water component of the groundwater plumes. The scope of this effort included evaluation of all groundwater sample analyses obtained from the wells that have been established by the Environmental Compliance & Area Completion Projects (EC&ACP) Department at SRS to monitor groundwater contamination emanating from the F- and H-Area Seepage Basins. Using this data, generalized groundwater plume maps for the radionuclides that occur in elevated concentrations (Am-241, Cm-243/244, Cs-137, I-129, Ni-63, Ra-226/228, Sr-90, Tc-99, U-233/234, U-235 and U-238) were generated and utilized to calculate both the volume of contaminated groundwater and the representative concentration of each radionuclide associated with different plume concentration zones.
- Research Organization:
- Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-08SR22470
- OSTI ID:
- 1256688
- Report Number(s):
- SRNL-STI-2016-00273; TRN: US1700216
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
GROUND WATER
CESIUM 137
CURIUM 244
IODINE 129
NICKEL 63
RADIUM 226
RADIUM 228
STRONTIUM 90
TECHNETIUM 99
URANIUM 233
URANIUM 234
AMERICIUM 241
CURIUM 243
URANIUM 235
URANIUM 238
CONCENTRATION RATIO
PLUMES
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
ABUNDANCE
INVENTORIES
CONTAMINATION
MONITORING
AQUIFERS
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
MAPS
SOILS
WELLS
ZONES
RADIOACTIVITY