Determination of the feasibility of reducing the spatial domain of the HEDR dose code. Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project: Dose code recovery activities, Calculation 006

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10124168· OSTI ID:10124168

Napier, B A; Snyder, S F

A series of scoping calculations has been undertaken to evaluate the doses that may have been received by individuals living in the vicinity of the Hanford site. The primary impetus for this scoping calculation was to determine if large areas of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project atmospheric domain could be excluded from detailed calculation because the atmospheric transport of radionuclides from Hanford resulted in no (or negligible) deposition in those areas. The secondary impetus was to investigate whether an intermediate screen could be developed to reduce the data storage requirements by taking advantage of locations with periods of ``effectively zero`` deposition. This scoping calculation (Calculation 006) examined the spatial distribution of potential doses resulting from releases in the year 1945. This study builds on the work initiated in the first scoping study, of iodine in cow`s milk, and the third scoping study, which added additional pathways. Addressed in this calculation were the contributions to thyroid dose of infants from (1) air submersion and groundshine external dose, (2) inhalation, (3) ingestion of soil by humans, (4) ingestion of leafy vegetables, (5) ingestion of other vegetables and fruits, and (6) ingestion of meat, (7) ingestion of eggs, and (8) ingestion of cow`s milk from Feeding Regime 1 as described in scoping calculation 001.

• Research Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 10124168
• Report Number(s): BN-SA-3678-HEDR; ON: DE93006306; CNN: Contract 200-92-0503(CDC)/18620(BNW)
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Dec 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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