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Title: Environmental assessment model for shallow land disposal of low-level radioactive wastes: interim report. [PRESTO (Prediction of Radiation Effects from Shallow Trench Operations)]

Abstract

PRESTO (Prediction of Radiation Effects from Shallow Trench Operations) is a computer code developed under US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding to evaluate possible health effects from shallow land burial trenches. The model is intended to be generic and to assess radionuclide transport, ensuing exposure, and health impact to a static local population for a 1000-y period following the end of burial operations. Human exposure scenarios considered by the model include normal releases (including leaching and operational spillage), human intrusion, and site farming or reclamation. Pathways and processes of transit from the trench to an individual or population include: groundwater transport, overland flow, erosion, surface water dilution, resuspension, atmospheric transport, deposition, inhalation, and ingestion of contaminated beef, milk, crops, and water. Both population doses and individual doses are calculated as well as doses to the intruder and farmer.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6014881
Report Number(s):
ORNL/TM-7943
ON: DE82001830; TRN: 82-000945
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-26
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; COMPUTER CODES; P CODES; LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; AIR POLLUTION; CERIUM 141; CERIUM 144; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; COBALT 60; GROUND WATER; HUMAN POPULATIONS; IRON 55; LAND RECLAMATION; LEACHING; LEAD 210; MANGANESE 54; RADIATION DOSES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; STRONTIUM 90; SURFACE WATERS; TECHNETIUM 99; THORIUM 232; URANIUM 234; URANIUM 235; URANIUM 238; WATER POLLUTION; ZINC 65; ACTINIDE ISOTOPES; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CERIUM ISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; COBALT ISOTOPES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DISSOLUTION; DOSES; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HEAVY NUCLEI; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; IRON ISOTOPES; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LEAD ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT; MANGANESE ISOTOPES; MASS TRANSFER; MATERIALS; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; POPULATIONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; RARE EARTH ISOTOPES; RARE EARTH NUCLEI; SEPARATION PROCESSES; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES; THORIUM ISOTOPES; URANIUM ISOTOPES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES; WATER; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; ZINC ISOTOPES; 510300* - Environment, Terrestrial- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 520300 - Environment, Aquatic- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (1989); 500300 - Environment, Atmospheric- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 053000 - Nuclear Fuels- Environmental Aspects

Citation Formats

Little, C. A., Fields, D. E., Emerson, C. J., and Hiromoto, G. Environmental assessment model for shallow land disposal of low-level radioactive wastes: interim report. [PRESTO (Prediction of Radiation Effects from Shallow Trench Operations)]. United States: N. p., 1981. Web. doi:10.2172/6014881.
Little, C. A., Fields, D. E., Emerson, C. J., & Hiromoto, G. Environmental assessment model for shallow land disposal of low-level radioactive wastes: interim report. [PRESTO (Prediction of Radiation Effects from Shallow Trench Operations)]. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6014881
Little, C. A., Fields, D. E., Emerson, C. J., and Hiromoto, G. 1981. "Environmental assessment model for shallow land disposal of low-level radioactive wastes: interim report. [PRESTO (Prediction of Radiation Effects from Shallow Trench Operations)]". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6014881. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6014881.
@article{osti_6014881,
title = {Environmental assessment model for shallow land disposal of low-level radioactive wastes: interim report. [PRESTO (Prediction of Radiation Effects from Shallow Trench Operations)]},
author = {Little, C. A. and Fields, D. E. and Emerson, C. J. and Hiromoto, G.},
abstractNote = {PRESTO (Prediction of Radiation Effects from Shallow Trench Operations) is a computer code developed under US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding to evaluate possible health effects from shallow land burial trenches. The model is intended to be generic and to assess radionuclide transport, ensuing exposure, and health impact to a static local population for a 1000-y period following the end of burial operations. Human exposure scenarios considered by the model include normal releases (including leaching and operational spillage), human intrusion, and site farming or reclamation. Pathways and processes of transit from the trench to an individual or population include: groundwater transport, overland flow, erosion, surface water dilution, resuspension, atmospheric transport, deposition, inhalation, and ingestion of contaminated beef, milk, crops, and water. Both population doses and individual doses are calculated as well as doses to the intruder and farmer.},
doi = {10.2172/6014881},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6014881}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981},
month = {Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981}
}