Eleventh international CODATA conference, scientific and technical data in a new era, Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany, 26--29 September 1988: Foreign trip report

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6534866

Tichler, J L

Information on release of radioactive materials in airborne and liquid effluents, solid waste shipments and selected operating information from commercial nuclear power plants in the United States is maintained in a computer data base at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) for the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC). The information entered into the data base is obtained from semiannual reports submitted by the operators of the plants to the USNRC in compliance with the USNRC Regulatory Guide 1.21, ''Measuring, Evaluating, and Reporting Radioactivity in Solid Wastes and Releases of Radioactive Materials in Liquid and Gaseous Effluents from Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants.'' The data on releases in the calendar year 1986 include information from 69 plants representing 87 reactors and contain approximately 19,000 entries. Since all the information is contained in a computer data base management system, entry and rapidly respond to inquiries about the data set and to generate computer readable subsets of the data. Such a subset is used as input to the computer program which generates the annual report, ''Population Dose Commitments Due to Radioactive Releases from Nuclear Power Plant Sites,'' prepared by Pacific Northwest Laboratory for the USNRC. BNL began maintaining this data base for the USNRC with the 1978 information and has added information to the data base for each succeeding year. An annual report summarizing the information for each year, prepared by BNL, and published by the USNRC, is available to the general public. Prior to 1978, annual reports were prepared by the USNRC and are available for the years 1972--1977; however, the information for these years is not in a computer accessible data base.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6534866
• Report Number(s): BNL-41076; ON: DE89004958
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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