St. Louis airport site: Annual site environmental report, St. Louis, Missouri, Calendar Year 1988: Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP)

Technical Report · Sat Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6172022· OSTI ID:6172022

The monitoring program at St. Louis Airport Site (SLAPS) measures radon concentrations in air; external gamma dose rates; and uranium, thorium, and radium concentrations in surface water, groundwater, and sediment. To assess the potential effects of SLAPS on public health, the potential radiation dose was estimated for a hypothetical maximally exposed individual. Based on the scenario described in this report, this hypothetical individual would receive an external exposure approximately equivalent to 7.5 percent of the DOE radiation protection standard of 100 mrem/yr. This exposure is approximately the same as a person receives during two round-trip flights from New York to Los Angeles (because of greater amounts of cosmic radiation at higher altitudes). The cumulative dose to the population within an 80-km (50-mi) radius of SLAPS that results from radioactive materials present at the site is indistinguishable from the dose the same population receives from naturally occurring radioactive sources. Results of 1988 monitoring show that SLAPS is in compliance with the DOE radiation protection standard. 18 refs., 13 figs., 13 tabs.

• Research Organization: Bechtel National, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-81OR20722
• OSTI ID: 6172022
• Report Number(s): DOE/OR/20722-220; ON: DE89010312
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
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