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DOI	10.2172/10191138
报告编号	WHC-MR--0418
来源ID	OSTI_ID: 10191138
	Historical records of radioactive contamination in biota at the 200 Areas of the Hanford Site
	Johnson, A.R.; Markes, B.M.; Schmidt, J.W.; Shah, A.N.; Weiss, S.G.; Wilson, K.J.
英文摘要	This document summarizes and reports a literature search of 85 environmental monitoring records of wildlife and vegetation (biota) at the 200 East Area and the 200 West Area of the Hanford Site since 1965. These records were published annually and provided the majority of the data in this report. Additional sources of data have included records of specific facilities, such as site characterization documents and preoperational environmental surveys. These documents have been released for public use. Records before 1965 were still being researched and therefore not included in this document. The intent of compiling these data into a single source was to identify past and current concentrations of radionuclides in biota at specific facilities and waste sites within each operable unit that may be used to help guide cleanup activities in the 200 Areas to be completed under the Comprehensive Environmental Response and Liability Act (CERCLA). The 200 East Area and 200 West Area were the locations of the Hanford Site separation and process facilities and waste management units. For the purposes of this document, a sample was of interest if a Geiger-Mueller counter equipped with a pancake probe-indicated beta/gamma emitting radioactivity above 200 counts per minute (cpm), or if laboratory radioanalyses indicated a radionuclide concentration equaled or exceeded 10 picocuries per gram (pCi/g). About 4,500 individual cases of monitoring for radionuclide uptake or transport in biota in the 200 Areas environs were included in the documents reviewed. About 1,900 (i.e., 42%) of these biota had radionuclide concentrations in excess of 10 pCi/g. These radionuclide transport or uptake cases were distributed among 45 species of wildlife (primarily small mammals and feces) and 30 species of vegetation. The wildlife species most commonly associated with radioactive contamination were the house mouse and the deer mouse and of vegetation species, the Russian thistle.
出版年	1994
报告类型	Technical Report
语种	英语
国家	美国
来源学科分类	11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS ; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES ; WILD ANIMALS ; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION ; PLANTS ; HANFORD RESERVATION ; RADIOACTIVITY ; SITE CHARACTERIZATION ; CONTAMINATION ; WASTE MANAGEMENT ; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY 053000 ; 054000 ; 052000 ; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS ; HEALTH AND SAFETY ; WASTE MANAGEMENT
URL	http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/10191138
资源类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/265683
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Johnson, A.R.,Markes, B.M.,Schmidt, J.W.,et al. Historical records of radioactive contamination in biota at the 200 Areas of the Hanford Site,1994.