Evaluation of potential hazard exposure resulting from DOE waste treatment and disposal at Rollins Environmental Services, Baton Rouge, LA

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:10145933

The equivalent dose rate to populations potentially exposed to wastes shipped to Rollins Environmental Services, Baton Rouge, LA from Oak Ridge and Savannah River Operations of the Department of Energy was estimated. Where definitive information necessary to the estimation of a dose rate was unavailable, bounding assumptions were employed to ensure an overestimate of the actual dose rate experienced by the potentially exposed population. On this basis, it was estimated that a total of about 3.85 million pounds of waste was shipped from these DOE operations to Rollins with a maximum combined total activity of about 0.048 Curies. Populations near the Rollins site could potentially be exposed to the radionuclides in the DOE wastes via the air pathway after incineration of the DOE wastes or by migration from the soil after landfill disposal. AIRDOS was used to estimate the dose rate after incineration. RESRAD was used to estimate the dose rate after landfill disposal. Calculations were conducted with the estimated radioactive specie distribution in the wastes and, as a test of the sensitivity of the results to the estimated distribution, with the entire activity associated with individual radioactive species such as Cs-137, Ba-137, Sr-90, Co-60, U-234, U-235 and U-238. With a given total activity, the dose rates to nearby individuals were dominated by the uranium species.

• Research Organization: Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States); Louisiana Tech Univ., Ruston, LA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-91EW30011
• OSTI ID: 10145933
• Report Number(s): DOE/EW/30011-T1; IRM-I-92-2; ON: DE92013634
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Apr 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY
HUMAN POPULATIONS
RADIATION DOSES
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
A CODES
R CODES
AIR
SOILS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
RADIATION PROTECTION
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY
DOSE RATES
COMBUSTION
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
ENRICHED URANIUM
WASTE FORMS
SANITARY LANDFILLS
COMPILED DATA
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540230
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WASTE MANAGEMENT
HEALTH AND SAFETY
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
DOSIMETRY AND MONITORING