Framework for risk analysis in Multimedia Environmental Systems (FRAMES)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
The objectives of this workshop are to (1) provide the NRC staff and the public with an overview of currently available Federally-Sponsored dose models appropriate for decommissioning assessments and (2) discuss NRC staff-developed questions related to model selection criteria with the final rule on ``Radiological Criteria for License Termination`` (62 FR 39058). For over 40 years, medium specific models have been and will continue to be developed in an effort to understand and predict environmental phenomena, including fluid-flow patterns, contaminant migration and fate, human or wildlife exposures, impacts from specific toxicants to specific species and their organs, cost-benefit analyses, impacts from remediation alternatives, etc. For nearly 40 years, medium-specific models have been combined for either sequential or concurrent assessments. The evolution of multiple-media assessment tools has followed a logic progression. To allow a suite of users the flexibility and versatility to construct, combine, and couple attributes that meet their specific needs without unnecessarily burdening the user with extraneous capabilities, the development of a computer-based methodology to implement a Risk Analysis in Multimedia Environmental Systems (FRAMES) was begun in 1994. FRAMES represents a platform which links elements together and yet does not represent the models that are linked to or within it; therefore, changes to elements that are linked to or within FRAMES do not change the framework.
- Research Organization:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 305906
- Report Number(s):
- NUREG/CP-0163; CONF-9711205-PROC.; ON: TI98007502; TRN: IM9906%%158
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Workshop on review of dose modeling mthods for demonstration of compliance with the radiological criteria for license termination, Rockville, MD (United States), 13-14 Nov 1997; Other Information: PBD: May 1998; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the workshop on review of dose modeling methods for demonstration of compliance with the radiological criteria for license termination; Nicholson, T.J.; Parrott, J.D. [eds.]; PB: 123 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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