Low level waste management handbook series: Environmental monitoring for low level waste disposal sites. Appendices: Revision 2.

摘要

This document reviews the purpose, objectives, principles, and design of environmental monitoring programs for low-level radioactive waste disposal sites. It also includes a description of environmental monitoring programs based on pathway analysis, critical pathways, waste composition and properties, radiation dosimetry, regulatory standards, and site and area characteristics used to determine sampling location and frequency. Discussions include procedures used to determine where, when, and how often monitoring of specific environmental media should be conducted; environmental sample collection and general measurement techniques; statistical considerations; quality assurance; data evaluation and reporting. Detailed information is included for the following: pathway analysis; hydrological measurements; well construction; atmospheric dispersion models; dosimetric quantities; a review of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Licensing Requirements for Land Disposal of Radioactive Waste, the Department of Energy's Low-Level Waste Order 5820.2A, the Environmental Protection Agency's Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regulations and methods of classical statistics. Volume II contains only appendices. 33 figs., 9 tabs.