Automated Groundwater Screening
Abstract
The Automated Intruder Analysis has been extended to include an Automated Ground Water Screening option. This option screens 825 radionuclides while rigorously applying the National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) methodology. An extension to that methodology is presented to give a more realistic screening factor for those radionuclides which have significant daughters. The extension has the promise of reducing the number of radionuclides which must be tracked by the customer. By combining the Automated Intruder Analysis with the Automated Groundwater Screening a consistent set of assumptions and databases is used. A method is proposed to eliminate trigger values by performing rigorous calculation of the screening factor thereby reducing the number of radionuclides sent to further analysis. Using the same problem definitions as in previous groundwater screenings, the automated groundwater screening found one additional nuclide, Ge-68, which failed the screening. It also found that 18 of the 57 radionuclides contained in NCRP Table 3.1 failed the screening. This report describes the automated groundwater screening computer application.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 881528
- Report Number(s):
- WSRC-TR-2005-00203
TRN: US0603124
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC09-96SR18500
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; RADIOISOTOPES; GROUND WATER; RADIATION MONITORING; AUTOMATION; COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS
Citation Formats
Taylor, Glenn A, and Collard, Leonard, B. Automated Groundwater Screening. United States: N. p., 2005.
Web. doi:10.2172/881528.
Taylor, Glenn A, & Collard, Leonard, B. Automated Groundwater Screening. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/881528
Taylor, Glenn A, and Collard, Leonard, B. 2005.
"Automated Groundwater Screening". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/881528. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/881528.
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abstractNote = {The Automated Intruder Analysis has been extended to include an Automated Ground Water Screening option. This option screens 825 radionuclides while rigorously applying the National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) methodology. An extension to that methodology is presented to give a more realistic screening factor for those radionuclides which have significant daughters. The extension has the promise of reducing the number of radionuclides which must be tracked by the customer. By combining the Automated Intruder Analysis with the Automated Groundwater Screening a consistent set of assumptions and databases is used. A method is proposed to eliminate trigger values by performing rigorous calculation of the screening factor thereby reducing the number of radionuclides sent to further analysis. Using the same problem definitions as in previous groundwater screenings, the automated groundwater screening found one additional nuclide, Ge-68, which failed the screening. It also found that 18 of the 57 radionuclides contained in NCRP Table 3.1 failed the screening. This report describes the automated groundwater screening computer application.},
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