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Hazelwood interim storage site: Annual site environmental report, Hazelwood, Missouri, Calendar Year 1988

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6305220· OSTI ID:6305220

The monitoring program at Hazelwood Interim Storage Site (HISS) measures radon concentrations in air; external gamma radiation levels; and uranium, radium, and thorium, concentrations in surface water, groundwater and sediment. To verify that the site is in compliance with the DOE radiation protection standard (100 mrem/yr) and assess its potential effect or public health, the radiation dose was calculated for a hypothetical maximally exposed individual. Based on the scenario described in this report, this hypothetical individual at HISS would receive an annual external exposure approximately equivalent to 1 percent of the DOE radiation protection standard. This exposure is less than the exposure a person receives during a flight from New York to Los Angeles (because of the greater amounts of cosmic radiation at higher altitudes). The cumulative dose to the population within an 80-km (50-mi) radius of HISS that results from radioactive materials present at the site is indistinguishable from the dose that the same population receives from naturally occurring radioactive sources. The results of 1988 monitoring show that HISS is in compliance with the DOE radiation protection standard. 15 refs., 16 figs., 13 tabs.

Research Organization:
Bechtel National, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-81OR20722
OSTI ID:
6305220
Report Number(s):
DOE/OR/20722-218; ON: DE89010304
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English