Open AccessNational emission standards for hazardous air pollutants submittal -- 1996
Author(s) -
Y E Townsend,
S C Black
Publication year - 1997
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/671856
Subject(s) - hazardous waste , environmental science , savannah river site , hazardous air pollutants , plutonium , waste management , containment (computer programming) , pollutant , radioactive waste , engineering , radiochemistry , chemistry , organic chemistry , computer science , programming language
The Nevada Test Site (NTS) is operated by the US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office (DOE/NV) as the site for nuclear weapons testing. Monitoring and evaluation of the various activities conducted onsite indicate that the potential sources of offsite radiation exposure in 1996 were releases from the following: evaporation of tritiated water from containment ponds that receive drainage from E tunnel and from wells used for site characterization studies; onsite radioanalytical laboratories; the Area 5 RWMS facility; and diffuse sources of tritium and resuspension of plutonium. Section 1 describes these sources on the NTS. Section 2 tabulates the air emissions data for the NTS. These data are used to calculate the effective dose equivalents to offsite residents. Appendices describe the methods used to determine the emissions from the sources listed