Annual radiological environmental monitoring report, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, 1986

Technical Report · Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:6479592

The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN) is located in Rhea County, Tennessee, bounded on the east by Chickamauga Reservoir. A preoperational environmental radiological monitoring program was implemented in December 1976. This program has the objective of establishing a baseline of data on the distribution of natural and manmade radioactivity in the environment near the plant site. This report presents the results obtained from that program during 1986. Since WBN has not achieved criticality, there has been no contribution of radioactivity from the plant to the environment. The levels of radioactivity being reported in this document are due to natural background radiation, fallout from nuclear weapons testing, fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident, or other nuclear operations in the area.

• Research Organization: Tennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga (USA). Radiological Control
• OSTI ID: 6479592
• Report Number(s): TVA/PUB-87/16; ON: DE87900847
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR
ANIMALS
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
BACKGROUND RADIATION
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BODY FLUIDS
ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS
FISHES
FLUIDS
FOOD
GASES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
MATERIALS
MILK
MONITORING
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POWER PLANTS
POWER REACTORS
PWR TYPE REACTORS
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIATIONS
REACTORS
SOILS
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
THERMAL REACTORS
VERTEBRATES
WATER
WATER COOLED REACTORS
WATER MODERATED REACTORS
WATTS BAR-1 REACTOR
WATTS BAR-2 REACTOR