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Assessing the Potential for Inadvertent Human Intrusion at the Area 3 and Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Sites on the Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada

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OSTI ID:1780804
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  1. Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS), North Las Vegas, NV (United States)
This paper recommends an approach to inadvertent human intrusion (IHI) at the Area 3 and Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Sites (RWMSs) on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). IHI analysis uses the consequences of an individual inadvertently contacting buried waste to set waste concentration limits for near-surface disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLW). Regulatory agencies are increasingly applying risk-informed decision-making to LLW waste management (NRC 2006). Risk-informed decision-making combines scientific risk assessment with stakeholder values and perceptions to determine a level of acceptable risk. Risk considers not only the consequences of an event, but also its probability of occurring.
Research Organization:
Nevada National Security Site/Mission Support and Test Services LLC, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)
DOE Contract Number:
NA0003624
OSTI ID:
1780804
Report Number(s):
DOE/NV/03624--1051; STIP WF - 23502755
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English