Colonie Interim Storage Site, Colonie, New York: Annual Site Environmental Report, Calendar Year 1987: Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP)

摘要

The monitoring program at the CISS measures external gamma radiation levels and uranium and radium-226 concentrations in surface water, groundwater, and sediment. To verify that the site is in compliance with the DOE radiation protection standard and to assess the potential effect of the site on public health, the radiation dose was calculated for the maximally exposed individual. Based on the conservative scenario described in the report, the maximally exposed individual would receive an annual external exposure approximately equivalent to 2 percent of the DOE radiation protection standard of 100 mrem/yr. This is also approximately equivalent to the exposure a person would receive during a round-trip flight from New York to Los Angeles (bcause of the greater amounts of cosmis radiation present at higher altitudes). The cumulative dose to the population within an 80-km (50-mi) radium of the CISS that would result from radioactive materials present at the site would be indistinguishable from the dose the same population would receive from naturally occurring radioactive sources. Results of 1987 monitoring show that the CISS is in compliance with the DOE radiation protection standard. 14 refsl, 9 figs., 9 tabs. (ERA citation 13:032374)