Effectiveness of irradiation in killing pathogens. [Treatment of sewage sludge for land application]

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5060061

Yeager, J G; Ward, R L

United States Environmental Protection Agency regulations include gamma ray irradiation of sludge as an approved Process to Further Reduce Pathogens (PFRP) prior to land application. Research at Sandia National Laboratories on pathogen inactivation in sludge by gamma irradiation has demonstrated that the 1 Mrad PFRP dose is capable, by itself, of eliminating bacterial, fungal, and parasitic pathogens from sludge. Gamma irradiation of sludge in conjunction with the required Processes to Significantly Reduce Pathogens (PSRP) should also eliminate the viral hazard from wastewater sludges.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); BDM Corp., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5060061
• Report Number(s): SAND-80-7124C; CONF-800964-2; TRN: 80-017066
• Resource Relation: Conference: National symposium on the use of cesium-137 to process sludge for further reduction of pathogens, Denver, CO, USA, 3 Sep 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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