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

Abstract

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.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Office of Radiation Programs, Washington, DC (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5761951
Report Number(s):
PB-83-190116; EPA-520/1-82-007
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; HUMAN POPULATIONS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIATION HAZARDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; DOSES; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; POPULATIONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES; 054000* - Nuclear Fuels- Health & Safety; 052002 - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Disposal & Storage; 560161 - Radionuclide Effects, Kinetics, & Toxicology- Man

Citation Formats

. Potential individual doses from disposal of high-level radioactive wastes in geologic repositories. Draft report. United States: N. p., 1983. Web.
. Potential individual doses from disposal of high-level radioactive wastes in geologic repositories. Draft report. United States.
. 1983. "Potential individual doses from disposal of high-level radioactive wastes in geologic repositories. Draft report". United States.
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