Wayne Interim Storage Site: Annual environmental report for calendar year 1990, Wayne, New Jersey

Technical Report · Sun Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5440059

Environmental monitoring of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Wayne Interim Storage Site (WISS) (a National Priorities List site) and surrounding area began in 1984. WISS is part of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), a DOE program to decontaminate or otherwise control sites where residual radioactive materials remain from the early years of the nation's atomic energy program or from commercial operations causing conditions that Congress has authorized DOE to remedy. The environmental monitoring program at WISS includes sampling networks for radon and thoron concentrations in air; external gamma radiation exposure; and radium-226, thorium-232, and total uranium concentrations in surface water, sediment, and groundwater. Sediment samples were also analyzed for thorium-230, and several nonradiological parameters were measured in groundwater. 16 refs., 12 figs., 23 tabs.

• Research Organization: Bechtel National, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-91OR21949
• OSTI ID: 5440059
• Report Number(s): DOE/OR/21949-286; ON: DE91018922
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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