Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant environmental monitoring report for calendar year 1982

Technical Report · Wed Apr 27 04:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:6194181

At the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant all effluent streams are sampled regularly and analyzed to assess compliance with applicable environmental standards. Radioactivity is measured in air, water, food, soil, and sediments; and radiation doses to the public are calculated. All public radiation doses from process effluents are well within Department of Energy and US EPA standards. Non-radioactive effluents either presently comply with federal standards or will comply upon completion of planned projects. CY-1982 was the second full year under a new National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for liquid effluents; compliance with the permit's discharge limits, with the exception of the high suspended solids in effluent from the South Holding Pond, did not present any significant problems. Engineering is proceeding on projects to be constructed through 1985 to further reduce the impact of liquid effluents. Although neither the State of Ohio nor the federal government has established standards for fluoride in the atmosphere or in vegetation, fluorides are monitored because they are used extensively in the gaseous diffusion process.

• Research Organization: Goodyear Atomic Corp., Piketon, OH (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76OR00001
• OSTI ID: 6194181
• Report Number(s): GAT/GDP-1111; ON: DE83012453
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ACTINIDES
AIR
DISPERSIONS
DOSES
ELEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY
FLUIDS
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANTS
GASEOUS WASTES
GASES
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HUMAN POPULATIONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
ISOTOPE SEPARATION PLANTS
LIQUID WASTES
MATERIALS
METALS
MONITORING
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PLANTS
POPULATIONS
PORTSMOUTH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVITY
SEDIMENTS
SOILS
SUSPENSIONS
URANIUM
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
WASTES
WATER