Long-Term Hydrologic Monitoring Program, Amchitka Island, Alaska

Technical Report · Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6641738

The purpose of the Long-Term Hydrologic Monitoring Program for Amchitka Island, Alaska, is to obtain data that will assure the public safety, inform the public, the news media, and the scientific community relative to radiological contamination, and to document compliance with federal, state, and local antipollution requirements. Amchitka's geographical setting, climate, geology, hydrology, and ecology are described. Site history including event information for LONG SHOT in 1965, MILROW in 1969, and CANNIKIN in 1971 is described. Event related contamination has been observed only at the LONG SHOT site. At this site, tritium in concentrations below the drinking water standards has been observed in mud pits and wells in the area adjacent to surface ground zero. The Long-Term Hydrologic Monitoring Program for Amchitka is described. No radioactive venting, significant radioactive leakage, or bioenvironmental damage resulted from any of the nuclear tests on Amchitka.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Las Vegas, NV (USA). Nevada Operations Office
• OSTI ID: 6641738
• Report Number(s): NVO-242; ON: DE83004132
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Aquatic-- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport-- Water-- (1987)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
AMCHITKA ISLAND AREA
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CANNIKIN EVENT
CLEANING
CONTAMINATION
DECONTAMINATION
EXPLOSIONS
GEOLOGY
GROMMET OPERATION
GROUND WATER
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
HYDROLOGY
ISLANDS
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
LONG SHOT EVENT
MANDREL OPERATION
MILROW EVENT
MONITORING
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIOISOTOPES
SITE SURVEYS
SURFACE WATERS
TRITIUM
UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS
VELA PROJECT
WATER
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES