Portsmouth Uranium Enrichment Complex environmental monitoring report for calender year 1983

Technical Report · Sun Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6966894

At the Portsmouth Uranium Enrichment Complex all effluent streams are sampled regularly and analyzed to assess compliance with applicable environmental standards. Radioactivity is measured in air, water, fish, produce, soil, and sediments; and radiation doses to the public are calculated. All public radiation doses from process effluents are well within Department of Energy standards. An extensive amount of engineering effort is also being exerted at the present time to modify existing airborne radioactivity emissions sources to further reduce emissions in compliance with DOE policy. Nonradioactive effluents either presently comply with federal standards or will comply upon completion of planned projects. CY-1983 was the third full year under the current National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for liquid effluents, and the first year the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assumed responsibility for administering the NPDES Program. Compliance with the permit's discharge limits, with the exception of the high suspended solids in effluent from the South Holding Pond, did not present any significant problems. Overall compliance was 94.0 percent. Engineering is working on projects that are scheduled through 1985 for construction to further reduce the impact of liquid effluents. Although neither the State of Ohio nor the federal government has established standards for fluoride in the atmosphere or in vegetation, fluorides are monitored because they are used extensively in the uranium enrichment process. 13 references, 23 tables.

• Research Organization: Goodyear Atomic Corp., Piketon, OH (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76OR00001
• OSTI ID: 6966894
• Report Number(s): GAT-4012; ON: DE84010939
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR
ANIMALS
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
CENTRIFUGE ENRICHMENT PLANTS
CHEMICAL EFFLUENTS
DATA
DATA COMPILATION
DOSES
FISHES
FLUIDS
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANTS
GASEOUS WASTES
GASES
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HUMAN POPULATIONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
INFORMATION
ISOTOPE SEPARATION PLANTS
LIQUID WASTES
MATERIALS
MONITORING
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUMERICAL DATA
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PLANTS
POPULATIONS
PORTSMOUTH CENTRIFUGE ENRICHMENT PLANT
PORTSMOUTH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVITY
SEDIMENTS
SOILS
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
VERTEBRATES
WASTES
WATER