Portsmouth Uranium Enrichment Complex environmental monitoring report for calendar year 1984

Technical Report · Wed May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:5710289

At the Portsmouth Uranium Enrichment Complex all effluent streams are sampled regularly and analyzed to assess compliance with applicable environmental standards. Radioactivity is measured in air, water, fish, produce, soil, and sediments; and radiation doses to the public are calculated. The calculated public radiation doses from process effluents are within US Department of Energy (DOE) and US Environmental Protection Agency standards. An extensive amount of engineering effort is underway to modify existing airborne radioactivity emissions sources to further reduce emissions in compliance with DOE policy. Non-radioactive effluents either presently comply with federal standards or will comply upon completion of planned projects. CY-1984 was the fourth full year under the current National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for liquid effluents, and the second year the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assumed responsibility for administering the NPDES program. Compliance with the permit's discharge limits, with the exception of violations due to the startup of two new wastewater treatment facilities, did not present any significant problems. Overall compliance was 94.7%.

• Research Organization: Goodyear Atomic Corp., Piketon, OH (USA). Environmental Control Dept.
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76OR00001
• OSTI ID: 5710289
• Report Number(s): GAT-4016; ON: DE85012820
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

520302* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport-- Aquatic Ecosystems & Food Chains-- (-1987)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
CENTRIFUGE ENRICHMENT PLANTS
CHEMICAL EFFLUENTS
DOSES
ECOSYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENT
GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANTS
HUMAN POPULATIONS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
ISOTOPE SEPARATION PLANTS
MATERIALS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
POPULATIONS
PORTSMOUTH CENTRIFUGE ENRICHMENT PLANT
PORTSMOUTH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT
RADIATION DOSES
RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVITY
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
WASTES