Estimates of amounts of soil removal for clean-up of transuranics at NAEG offsite safety-shot sites
Rough estimates are given for the amount of soil removal necessary to decontaminate five representative safety-shot areas. In order to decontaminate to levels of less than 160 pCi /sup 239/Pu per gram of surface soil, it is estimated that over one-half million tons of soil would have to be removed from the five areas. This is a preliminary estimate based on summary data and concentration contour maps readily available in NAEG publications. More accurate estimates could be obtained by applying Kriging techniques to available soil data if the need arises. The inclusion of /sup 241/Am and /sup 238/Pu activities do not significantly increase the soil tonnage estimates obtained for /sup 239/ /sup 240/Pu because of their relatively small contributions to total transuranic activity. The magnitude of the errors inherent in our use of summary data to obtain rough estimates also suggests that a revision of the tonnage estimates for /sup 239/ /sup 240/Pu to include /sup 241/Am and /sup 238/Pu is not warranted.
- Research Organization:
- Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 6681334
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-SA-8267; CONF-800157-1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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510301 -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport-- Soil-- (-1987)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ACTINIDE ISOTOPES
ACTINIDE NUCLEI
ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
AMERICIUM 241
AMERICIUM ISOTOPES
CLEANING
CONTAMINATION
DATA
DATA COMPILATION
DECONTAMINATION
DENSITY
ELEMENTS
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
FORECASTING
HEAVY NUCLEI
INFORMATION
ISOTOPE RATIO
ISOTOPES
NEVADA TEST SITE
NUCLEI
NUMERICAL DATA
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
PLUTONIUM 238
PLUTONIUM 239
PLUTONIUM 240
PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES
RADIOACTIVITY
RADIOISOTOPES
REMOVAL
SOILS
THEORETICAL DATA
TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
VOLUME
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES