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Hazelwood Interim Storage Site environmental report for calendar year 1989, Hazelwood, Missouri

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6401954

The environmental monitoring program, begun in 1984, was continued during 1989 at the Hazelwood Interim Storage Site (HISS), a US Department of Energy (DOE) facility located in the City of Hazelwood, Missouri. HISS is currently used for storage of soils contaminated with residual radioactive material. HISS is part of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), a DOE program to decontaminate or otherwise control sites where residual radioactive material remains from the early years of the nation's atomic energy program or from commercial operations causing conditions that Congress has authorized DOE to remedy. The monitoring program at HISS measures radon concentrations in air; external gamma radiation levels; and uranium, radium, and thorium concentrations in surface water, groundwater, and sediment. Additionally, several nonradiological parameters are measured in groundwater. To verify that the site is in compliance with the DOE radiation protection standard (100 mrem/yr) and assess its potential effect on public health, the radiation dose was calculated for a hypothetical maximally exposed individual. This report presents the findings of the environmental monitoring conducted at HISS during calendar year 1989. 19 refs., 14 figs., 13 tabs.

Research Organization:
Bechtel National, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (USA)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/NE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-81OR20722
OSTI ID:
6401954
Report Number(s):
DOE/OR/20722-263; ON: DE91002528
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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