Below regulatory concern owners group: BRC waste variability evaluation: Final report
Conservative estimates of radionuclide concentrations in BRC waste from commercial nuclear power stations were established in this study. These concentrations are necessary input parameters for dose assessments that will become part of the technical basis for a petition for rulemaking on BRC waste disposal. The NRC policy statement on below regulatory concern (BRC) waste disposal requires that the radiologic properties of the waste proposed to be disposed of as BRC be characterized on a national basis. The characterization is to include the concentrations or contamination levels of the radionuclides expected to be in the waste. The variability in these properties is to be assessed to justify the appropriate parameters used for impact analyses. We evaluated the variability of the radiological properties of BRC wastes generated at nuclear power plants and evaluated average activity concentrations in BRC waste types and waste mass or volume distributions as a function of activity concentration. 24 figs., 27 tabs.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Vance and Associates, Ruidoso, NM (USA); National Nuclear Corp., Mountain View, CA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5901013
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-NP-5685
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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