Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project. Monthly report

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10172940· OSTI ID:10172940

McMakin, A H; Cannon, S D; Finch, S M ^[1]

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The objective of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project is to estimate the radiation doses that individuals and populations could have received from nuclear operations at Hanford since 1944. The TSP consists of experts in environmental pathways, epidemiology, surface-water transport, ground-water transport, statistics, demography, agriculture, meteorology, nuclear engineering, radiation dosimetry, and cultural anthropology. Included are appointed technical members representing the states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, a representative of Native American tribes, and an individual representing the public. The project is divided into the following technical tasks. These tasks correspond to the path radionuclides followed from release to impact on humans (dose estimates): Source terms, environmental transport, environmental monitoring data, demography, food consumption, and agriculture, and environmental pathways and dose estimates. Progress is discussed.

• Research Organization: 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: 10172940
• Report Number(s): PNWD--1980-02-HEDR; ON: DE92040044; CNN: Contract 18620(BNW)/200-92-0503(CDC)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540230
560101
61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY
AIR
AMERICAN INDIANS
DEMOGRAPHY
DOSIMETRY AND MONITORING
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE
FOOD CHAINS
GROUND WATER
HANFORD RESERVATION
HISTORICAL ASPECTS
HUMAN POPULATIONS
PROGRESS REPORT
RADIATION DOSES
RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
SOURCE TERMS