Radionuclide releases to the Columbia River from Hanford Operations, 1944--1971. Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project

Technical Report · Sun May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10153736· OSTI ID:10153736

Heeb, C M; Bates, D J

The purpose of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project is to estimate the radiation dose that individuals could have received as a result of radionuclide emissions since 1944 from the Hanford Site. One source of radionuclide releases to the Columbia River was from production reactor operations. This report provides a quantitative estimate of the amount of radioactivity released each month (1944--1971) to the Columbia River from eleven radionuclides as well as from gross beta activity.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 10153736
• Report Number(s): PNWD--2223-HEDR; ON: DE94012491
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540330
540350
560101
61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY
COLUMBIA RIVER
CONTAMINATION
DOSIMETRY AND MONITORING
HANFORD RESERVATION
HISTORICAL ASPECTS
HUMAN POPULATIONS
RADIATION DOSES
RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
SITE RESOURCE AND USE STUDIES