Measurement of Sr-90 background levels in water, soil and milk around the site of the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station

Thesis/Dissertation · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6138421

Samadi, N

Background concentrations of Sr-90 in water, soil and milk samples collected from preselected locations around the first nuclear power plant in Texas, the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station at Glen Rose, were measured in the period 1980-82. Statistical analyses of measured data showed that: 1) in the first approximation, Sr-90 is distributed uniformly in the North Central Texas area; 2) no seasonal variation is observed in the concentrations measured in water, soil and milk; 3) the Sr-90 content of surface water is shown, however, to be higher than that of underground water; this difference might be explained by the atmospheric (fallout) origin of Sr-90 generated in atmospheric nuclear explosions before 1963; 4) in the area under investigation, Sr-90 concentrations turns out to be lower than those measured in northern parts of the US. This difference might be explained by the fact that the majority of atmospheric nuclear explosions were carried out at higher latitudes than that of Texas, and by the approximative conservation of latitude in the atmospheric motion of radioactive clouds.

• OSTI ID: 6138421
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
COMANCHE PEAK-1 REACTOR
BACKGROUND RADIATION
MILK
STRONTIUM 90
SOILS
MONITORING
WATER
ATMOSPHERIC EXPLOSIONS
ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BODY FLUIDS
ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EXPLOSIONS
FOOD
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOTOPES
MATERIALS
NUCLEI
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POWER REACTORS
PWR TYPE REACTORS
RADIATIONS
RADIOISOTOPES
REACTORS
STRONTIUM ISOTOPES
WATER COOLED REACTORS
WATER MODERATED REACTORS
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
510300* - Environment
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220500 - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Environmental Aspects
520300 - Environment
Aquatic- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (1989)
500300 - Environment
Atmospheric- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)