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Estimating risks and doses from the nuclear weapons complex
| Auteur | B.Franke, Arjun Makhijani, S.Stubbs |
| Datum | december 1991 |
| Classificatie | 3.01.8.31/04 (VS - LOCATIES - FERNALD) |
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Uit de publicatie:
PREFACE The purpose of this brief report, with its documentary appendix, is to discuss how plant records, plant design, operating conditions and procedures affect risk assessment and dosimetry for both workers and offsite populations in relation to the facilities that constitute the nuclear weapons complex. The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) has been involved in studies of various of these facilities. The most intensive study that we have done, which considers both offsite populations as well as workers, has been of the Feed Materials Production Center, near Fernald, Ohio. Our work on assessment of risk to offsite populations was completed in 1989. Our work regarding workers is still in progress and only limited investigations have been undertaken so far. We have therefore chosen to present FMPC as a case study on how the primary documentary records of the plant relate to risk assessment. Our finding is that the official conclusions regarding the source terms for various radioactive and non-radioactive hazardous materials cannot be accepted at face value, and that indeed, the records are so poor and incomplete that it would scientifically incorrect to proceed on the assumption that the official risk assessments and source terms are accurate. Their validity needs to be established by more elaborate and careful study. We have described in brief the kinds of work that IEER has done on Fernald and the relevance of examining primary documents in the various areas of concern. This report is in no way a full representation of the work that IEER has done on FMPC. It is meant to contain sufficient materials to illustrate the conclusions and recommendations that we have made. Additional, longer reports that IEER has prepared and tens of thousands of pages of primary plant documents and official records and studies that we have examined are available at IEER. We have previously made some of these materials available to the Centers for Disease Control in connection with the study n FMPC that they have commissioned. This work is part of IEER's project for providing technical assistance to grassroots groups working on nuclear-weapons-related environmental issues. Funding for this project, including this report, has been generously provided by grants from the W. Alton Jones Foundation, the Winston Foundation for World Peace and the North Shore Unitarian Veatch Program. Arjun Makhijani Takoma Park, Maryland December 2, 1991
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