Search Results - subject:"RADIATION DOSES"

Radiation standards and calibrations. FY-1981 annual report

Roberson, P.L.; Yoder, R.C.; Fox, R.A.; Hooker, C.D.; … - 2011

The research program encompasses: reviewing calibration standards, regulations, and handbooks; assuring that calibration procedures used are in agreement with technically accepted methods; maintaining basic radioactive sources and instruments that serve as radiological standards; and providing...

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Cost tradeoffs in consequence management at nuclear power plants: A risk based approach to setting optimal long-term interdiction limits for regulatory analyses

Mubayi, V. - 2009

The consequences of severe accidents at nuclear power plants can be limited by various protective actions, including emergency responses and long-term measures, to reduce exposures of affected populations. Each of these protective actions involve costs to society. The costs of the long-term...

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Issues in performance assessments for disposal of US Department of Energy low-level waste

Wood, D.E.; Wilhite, E.L.; Duggan, G.J. - 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors have long been pioneers in the field of radiological performance assessment (PA). Much effort has been expended in developing technology and acquiring data to facilitate the assessment process. This is reflected in DOE Order 5820.2A,...

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Site restoration: Estimation of attributable costs from plutonium-dispersal accidents

Chanin, D.I.; Murfin, W.B. - 2009

A nuclear weapons accident is an extremely unlikely event due to the extensive care taken in operations. However, under some hypothetical accident conditions, plutonium might be dispersed to the environment. This would result in costs being incurred by the government to remediate the site and...

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Scenarios for /sup 14/C release to the atmosphere by the world nuclear industry and estimated radiological impacts. [Projections for the years 1975 through 2020]

Till, J.E.; Killough, G.G. - 2009

This paper presents an assessment of the radiation dose to the world population and the associated potential health effects from three scenarios of /sup 14/C releases by the nuclear industry between 1975 and 2020. Measures of health impact are derived from source terms through the use of a...

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Westinghouse Hanford Company ALARA year-end report, Calendar Year 1994: Revision 3A, Radiological engineering and ALARA

Berglund, O.D. - 2009

It has long been the US Department of Energy`s (DOE`s) Policy that radiation doses should be maintained as far below … radiation doses carry some risk. As a result, it is not enough to maintain doses at/or slightly below limits; the lower the … factors must be considered to determine the optimal level of radiation doses. According to the ALARA Principle, if doses are …

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Accounting for uncertainty in systematic bias in exposure estimates used in relative risk regression

Gilbert, E.S. - 2009

In many epidemiologic studies addressing exposure-response relationships, sources of error that lead to systematic bias in exposure measurements are known to be present, but there is uncertainty in the magnitude and nature of the bias. Two approaches that allow this uncertainty to be reflected...

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Human factors evaluation of teletherapy: Literature review. Volume 5

Henriksen, K.; Kaye, R.D.; Jones, R.; Morisseau, D.S.; … - 2009

A series of human factors evaluations were undertaken to better understand the contributing factors to human error in the teletherapy environment. Teletherapy is a multidisciplinary methodology for treating cancerous tissue through selective exposure to an external beam of ionizing radiation. A...

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Assessment of recycling or disposal alternatives for radioactive scrap metal

Murphie, W.E.; Lilly, M.J. III; Nieves, L.A.; Chen, S.Y. - 2008

The US Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, is participating with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an evaluation of management alternatives for radioactive scarp metals. For this purpose, Argonne National Laboratory is...

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RADIATION DOSE AND RISK TO RECREATIONAL FISHERMEN FROM INGESTION OF FISH CAUGHT NEAR EIGHT OIL PLATFORMS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO

MEINHOLD,A.F.; HOLTZMAN,S. - 2008

Offshore production of oil and gas is accompanied by a saline wastewater, called produced water. Produced water discharges to the Gulf of Mexico often contain elevated concentrations of radionuclides that occur naturally in the geologic reservoir along with the oil and gas. These radionuclides...

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