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Environmental monitoring and dose assessment following the December 1991 K-reactor aqueous tritium release
Abstract
Between 22 December and 25 December 1991, approximately 570 L of tritiated water was released from the K Reactor at the Savannah River Site. Analyses of river flow rates and measured tritium concentrations showed that approximately 210 TBq of tritium had been released from the reactor and was being transported down the Savannah River. Elevated tritium concentrations in the Savannah River were first detected on 26 December 1991. The maximum measured tritium concentration at Highway 301 (a major sampling point 37 km downstream of the Savannah River Site) was 2.5 Bq mL-1. A hypothetical maximum individual located at Highway 301 would have received a drinking water dose of approximately 0.35 microSv, less than 1% of the Environmental Protection Agency's 40 microSv y-1 drinking water standard. Concentrations at the intake canals to two water treatment facilities, approximately 160 km downstream, began to rise above normal on 28 December. The population dose to users of the downstream domestic water supplies and consumers of Savannah River biota was estimated to be 4.7 x 10[sup [minus]3] person-Sv.
- Authors:
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- Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, SC (United States)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 7368801
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Health Physics; (United States)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 65:1; Journal ID: ISSN 0017-9078
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; HUMAN POPULATIONS; RADIATION DOSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; K REACTOR; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; SAVANNAH RIVER; CONTAMINATION; RADIATION MONITORING; TRITIUM; SAMPLING; DRINKING WATER; HEAVY WATER; INTAKE CANALS; SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT; SOUTH CAROLINA; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT; ACCIDENTS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DOSES; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MONITORING; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; POPULATIONS; PRODUCTION REACTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTORS; RIVERS; SPECIAL PRODUCTION REACTORS; STREAMS; SURFACE WATERS; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; USA; WATER; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; 540350* - Environment, Aquatic- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-); 560101 - Biomedical Sciences, Applied Studies- Radiation Effects- Dosimetry & Monitoring- (1992-)
Citation Formats
Hamby, D M, Addis, R P, Beals, D M, Boni, A L, Cadieux, J R, Carlton, W H, Dunn, D L, Hall, G, Hayes, D W, and Heffner, J D. Environmental monitoring and dose assessment following the December 1991 K-reactor aqueous tritium release. United States: N. p., 1993.
Web. doi:10.1097/00004032-199307000-00004.
Hamby, D M, Addis, R P, Beals, D M, Boni, A L, Cadieux, J R, Carlton, W H, Dunn, D L, Hall, G, Hayes, D W, & Heffner, J D. Environmental monitoring and dose assessment following the December 1991 K-reactor aqueous tritium release. United States. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004032-199307000-00004
Hamby, D M, Addis, R P, Beals, D M, Boni, A L, Cadieux, J R, Carlton, W H, Dunn, D L, Hall, G, Hayes, D W, and Heffner, J D. 1993.
"Environmental monitoring and dose assessment following the December 1991 K-reactor aqueous tritium release". United States. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004032-199307000-00004.
@article{osti_7368801,
title = {Environmental monitoring and dose assessment following the December 1991 K-reactor aqueous tritium release},
author = {Hamby, D M and Addis, R P and Beals, D M and Boni, A L and Cadieux, J R and Carlton, W H and Dunn, D L and Hall, G and Hayes, D W and Heffner, J D},
abstractNote = {Between 22 December and 25 December 1991, approximately 570 L of tritiated water was released from the K Reactor at the Savannah River Site. Analyses of river flow rates and measured tritium concentrations showed that approximately 210 TBq of tritium had been released from the reactor and was being transported down the Savannah River. Elevated tritium concentrations in the Savannah River were first detected on 26 December 1991. The maximum measured tritium concentration at Highway 301 (a major sampling point 37 km downstream of the Savannah River Site) was 2.5 Bq mL-1. A hypothetical maximum individual located at Highway 301 would have received a drinking water dose of approximately 0.35 microSv, less than 1% of the Environmental Protection Agency's 40 microSv y-1 drinking water standard. Concentrations at the intake canals to two water treatment facilities, approximately 160 km downstream, began to rise above normal on 28 December. The population dose to users of the downstream domestic water supplies and consumers of Savannah River biota was estimated to be 4.7 x 10[sup [minus]3] person-Sv.},
doi = {10.1097/00004032-199307000-00004},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7368801},
journal = {Health Physics; (United States)},
issn = {0017-9078},
number = ,
volume = 65:1,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
month = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993}
}
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