Potential individual doses from disposal of high-level radioactive wastes in geologic repositories. Draft report

Technical Report · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5761951

The agency has recently published environmental standards addressing disposal of high-level radioactive wastes (40 CFR Part 191) for public review and comment (47 FR 58196). An important part of this effort is the evaluation of how effective mined geologic repositories are for isolating these wastes from the environment for many thousands of years. This technical report presents the methodology used to assess the potential annual individual doses and human exposure and geologic media contamination probabilities from projected releases of radioisotopes from a geologic repository. It describes the models that the Agency employed for this analysis and reviews the various assumptions which were made. Since this analysis is necessarily generic in nature, the methodology uses very general models of environmental pathways and considers a range of values for the various parameters used in the models.

• Research Organization: Office of Radiation Programs, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5761951
• Report Number(s): PB-83-190116; EPA-520/1-82-007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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