Directory of parameters used in a series of assessment applications of the AIRDOS-EPA and DARTAB computer codes

Technical Report · Sun Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6854214

Baes, III, C F; Sharp, R D

Between January and September 1980, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) performed a series of radiological dose and risk assessments for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of 79 facilities in the United States which release radionuclides to the atmosphere on a routine basis. The AIRDOS-EPA computer code was used to simulate atmospheric and terrestrial transport and to calculate resulting environmental exposures of individuals and populations to contaminated ground surfaces, air, meat, milk, and vegetables. Doses and risks from these exposures were calculated separately in the computer code DARTAB using dose and risk factors developed through the RADRISK AND INREM II computer codes. Because of the importance of these assessments in determining EPA actions concerning these facilities and the possibility of conflict of interest (ORNL was one of the facilities assessed), Teknekron Research, Inc., was given responsibility for providing site-specific information, including facility code name, location, surrounding population, meteorological information, etc. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory was given responsibility for supplying nuclide-specific information and for running the assessment codes. This report describes and lists the nuclide-specific parameters supplied by ORNL, and for reader convenience, some of the site-specific parameters used in running the codes.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6854214
• Report Number(s): ORNL-5710
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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