Hazards Evaluation of Building 2527 and Very High Activity Waste Storage Facility - Vol. 7

Technical Report · Tue Aug 21 04:00:00 EDT 1962

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/2376922· OSTI ID:2376922

Irvine, A. R. ^[1]; Nichols, J. P. ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

An evaluation of the hazards in Bldg. 2527 and the very high-activity waste storage facility indicates that the accident with the most serious consequences, a nuclear excursion which ruptures a vessel that contains the most radioactive process solution, would result in a probable radiation exposure to personnel in the secondary containment shell of approximately 0.1 rem and a maximum downwind exposure to ORNL personnel of approximately 1 rem. The fallout of radioactive particulate matter would be such that neither the hazardous ground concentration nor the required decontamination level would be exceeded. Standards of construction and containment, assumptions made to evaluate the potential hazards of release of radioactive material, and methods of calculation used for development of this hazards analysis are given in ORNL-2956, Summary Report - Hazards Analyses of Radiochemical Processing and Waste Disposal at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sects. 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
• OSTI ID: 2376922
• Report Number(s): ORNL-TM--318
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY