The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project: Overview
In a multi year effort that began in 1988, researchers at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory are estimating radiation doses that people could have received since 1944 from nuclear operations at the US Department of Energy's Hanford Site. Known as the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project, the work has required the development of new methods and tools for dealing with unique technical and communication challenges. Scientists are doing probabilistic dose assessment -- rather than the more typical deterministic approach -- to generate dose distributions rather than single-point estimates. Uncertainties in input parameters are reflected in the dose results. Sensitivity analyses are used to optimize project resources in defining the project's scope. An independent technical steering panel directs and approves the work in a public forum. 3 figs.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/NE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 5478757
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-SA-16859-HEDR; CONF-891072-3; ON: DE90001899
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 27. Hanford symposium on health and the environment: multilevel research--molecules to man, Richland, WA (USA), 18-20 Oct 1989
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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US DOE
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