Response to Nuclear Regulatory Commission`s ten questions pertaining to site-specific models for use in the license termination rule: Multimedia Environmental Pollutant Assessment System (MEPAS)

Conference · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:305905

Buck, J W; Whelan, G; Strenge, D L; Hoopes, B L; McDonald, J P; Castleton, K J; Pelton, M A; Gelston, G M; Taira, R Y ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA (United States)

This paper is in response to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ten questions posed at the Modeling Workshop held November 13 and 14, 1997. The ten questions were developed in advance of the workshop to allow model developers to prepare a presentation at the Workshop. This paper is an expanded version of the Multimedia Environmental Pollutant Assessment System (MEPAS) presentation given at the Modeling Workshop by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) staff. This paper is organized by the ten questions asked by the NRC, each section devoted to a single question. The current version of methodology is MEPAS 3.2 (NRC 1997) and the discussion in this paper will pertain to that version. In some cases, MEPAS 4.0, which is currently being developed under the Framework for Risk Analysis in Multimedia Environmental Systems (FRAMES) (Whelan et al. 1997), will be referenced to inform the reader of potential capabilities in the near future. A separate paper is included in the document that discusses the FRAMES concept.

• Research Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 305905
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CP-0163; CONF-9711205-PROC.; ON: TI98007502; TRN: IM9906%%157
• Resource Relation: Conference: Workshop on review of dose modeling mthods for demonstration of compliance with the radiological criteria for license termination, Rockville, MD (United States), 13-14 Nov 1997; Other Information: PBD: May 1998; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the workshop on review of dose modeling methods for demonstration of compliance with the radiological criteria for license termination; Nicholson, T.J.; Parrott, J.D. [eds.]; PB: 123 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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