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Title: Permissible limits for reactor cooling water assimilated by humans

Abstract

A permissible limit for the release of waste cooling water from the Hanford reactors into the Columbia River must be determined not only from the effect on humans of assimilation of the radioactive isotopes in the water, but also from the effects of temperature, submersion dose, and metabolism of radioisotopes on fish and other aquatic life in the river, and of concentration in plants of the radioisotopes in irrigation water from the river, with eventual consequences to humans. This report derives permissible limits for human assimilation. 10 refs., 4 tabs.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Hanford Works, Richland, WA (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/EH
OSTI Identifier:
6802779
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 6802779; Legacy ID: DE91000144
Report Number(s):
HW-38283-RD
ON: DE91000144
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Declassified 28 Sep 1990
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; COLUMBIA RIVER; CONTAMINATION; HANFORD PRODUCTION REACTORS; COOLANTS; HUMAN POPULATIONS; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE BODY BURDEN; PERSONNEL; RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS; HEALTH HAZARDS; AIR; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS; DRINKING WATER; EMISSION; FISHES; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE CONCENTRATION; METABOLISM; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; REACTOR COOLING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; ANIMALS; COOLING SYSTEMS; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ENERGY SYSTEMS; FLUIDS; GASES; HAZARDS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION REACTORS; POPULATIONS; PRODUCTION REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; RIVERS; SAFETY STANDARDS; STANDARDS; STREAMS; SURFACE WATERS; VERTEBRATES; WASTES; WATER 220700* -- Nuclear Reactor Technology-- Plutonium & Isotope Production Reactors; 220502 -- Nuclear Reactor Technology-- Environmental Aspects-- Radioactive Effluents; 560161 -- Radionuclide Effects, Kinetics, & Toxicology-- Man

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Clukey, H.V. Permissible limits for reactor cooling water assimilated by humans. United States: N. p., 1953. Web. doi:10.2172/6802779.
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@article{osti_6802779,
title = {Permissible limits for reactor cooling water assimilated by humans},
author = {Clukey, H.V.},
abstractNote = {A permissible limit for the release of waste cooling water from the Hanford reactors into the Columbia River must be determined not only from the effect on humans of assimilation of the radioactive isotopes in the water, but also from the effects of temperature, submersion dose, and metabolism of radioisotopes on fish and other aquatic life in the river, and of concentration in plants of the radioisotopes in irrigation water from the river, with eventual consequences to humans. This report derives permissible limits for human assimilation. 10 refs., 4 tabs.},
doi = {10.2172/6802779},
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number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 28 00:00:00 EDT 1953},
month = {Thu May 28 00:00:00 EDT 1953}
}
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