Environmental status of the Hanford reservation for July--December 1968

Technical Report · Thu Apr 17 04:00:00 EST 1969

OSTI ID:4369296

Wooldridge, C B ^[1]

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1. ed.

Data are presented on the radioactivity in environmental samples collected within the Hanford plant boundaries during the last six months of 1968. Data are included on the total alpha activity, total BETA activity, and content of /sup 90/Sr and tritium in samples of Columbia River water; the total BETA activity in samples of drinking water; the content of /sup 51/Cr, /sup 65/ Zn, /syp 125/Sb, /sup 131/I, /sup 134/ Cs, and /sup 137/Cs in samples of surface waters; the content of /sup 32/P, /sup 65/Zn, /sup 137/Cs, an d /sup 137m/Ba in tissues of game birds feeding on the area; the total BETA activity and /sup 131/ I content of samples of surface air; and the total alpha activity, BETA activity, and gamma activity in samples of air filters. Estimates were made of the average external gamma exposure rates of personnel. (CH)

• Research Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, Wash. (USA)
• NSA Number: NSA-29-012701
• OSTI ID: 4369296
• Report Number(s): BNWL-CC--2026
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

*ALPHA SOURCES-- RADIATION MONITORING
*ANTIMONY 125-- RADIATION MONITORING
*BARIUM 137-- RADIATION MONITORING
*BETA SOURCES-- RADIATION MONITORING
*CESIUM 134-- RADIATION MONITORING
*CESIUM 137-- RADIATION MONITORING
*CHROMIUM 51-- RADIATION MONITORING
*GAMMA SOURCES-- RADIATION MONITORING
*HAPO-- RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
*IODINE 131-- RADIATION MONITORING
*PERSONNEL-- RADIATION DOSES
*PHOSPHORUS 32-- RADIATION MONITORING
*RADIOACTIVE WASTES-- RADIATION MONITORING
*STRONTIUM 90-- RADIATION MONITORING
*TRITIUM-- RADIATION MONITORING
*ZINC 65-- RADIATION MONITORING
*ZIRCONIUM 95-- RADIATION MONITORING
AIR FILTERS
BIRDS
COLU
N44300* --Environmental & Earth Sciences--Radioactivity Monitoring & Transport