Mellinger, P.J., Brackenbush, L.W., Tanner, J.E., and Gilbert, E.S. Krypton-85 health risk assessment for a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. United States: N. p., 1984.
Web. doi:10.2172/6510974.
Mellinger, P.J., Brackenbush, L.W., Tanner, J.E., & Gilbert, E.S. Krypton-85 health risk assessment for a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. United States. doi:10.2172/6510974.
Mellinger, P.J., Brackenbush, L.W., Tanner, J.E., and Gilbert, E.S. Wed .
"Krypton-85 health risk assessment for a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant". United States.
doi:10.2172/6510974. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6510974.
@article{osti_6510974,
title = {Krypton-85 health risk assessment for a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant},
author = {Mellinger, P.J. and Brackenbush, L.W. and Tanner, J.E. and Gilbert, E.S.},
abstractNote = {The risks involved in the routine release of /sup 85/Kr from nuclear fuel reprocessing operations to the environment were compared to those resulting from the capture and storage of /sup 85/Kr. Instead of releasing the /sup 85/Kr to the environment when fuel is reprocessed, it can be captured, immobilized and stored. Two alternative methods of capturing /sup 85/Kr (cryogenic distillation and fluorocarbon absorption) and one method of immobilizing the captured gas (ion implantation/sputtering) were theoretically incorporated into a representative fuel reprocessing plant, the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant, even though there are no known plans to start up this facility. Given the uncertainties in the models used to generate lifetime risk numbers (0.02 to 0.027 radiation induced fatal cancers expected in the occupational workforce and 0.017 fatal cancers in the general population), the differences in total risks for the three situations, (i.e., no-capture and two-capture alternatives) cannot be considered meaningful. It is possible that no risks would occur from any of the three situations. There is certainly no reason to conclude that risks from /sup 85/Kr routinely released to the environment are greater than those that would result from the other two situations considered. Present regulations mandate recovery and disposal of /sup 85/Kr from the off gases of a facility reprocessing spent fuel from commercial sources. Because of the lack of a clear-cut indication that recovery woud be beneficial, it does not seem prudent to burden the facilities with a requirement for /sup 85/Kr recovery, at least until operating experience demonstrates the incentive. The probable high aging of the early fuel to be processed and the higher dose resulting from the release of the unregulated /sup 3/H and /sup 14/C also encourage delaying implementation of the /sup 85/Kr recovery in the early plants.},
doi = {10.2172/6510974},
journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984},
month = {Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984}
}
