Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-76CH00016 Q~STRIBUTION OF THIS DOCUMENT IS UNLlMED ACKNO WLEDGRIENTS This study was funded by the United States Dcpartmcnt of Energy. Office of Environmental Restorution and Waste Management, Officc of Technology Development. The Project Officer for the study was Mr. Michael Barainca. This study was performed by the Biomedical and Environmental Assessincnt Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). T h e principal investigator for the work was Dr. L. D. Hamilton.
This report provides material which supports the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management's efforts to prepare environmental-impact information required for developing a system for permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level wastes. AnEnvironmental Impact Statement should treat likely health and safety, environmental, economic, and social impacts, any of which may be either positive or negative for the community concerned. The negative impacts may be due to accidents, or natural phenomena such as tornadoes and earthquakes, orsabotage. This study focuses on the literature of a subset of the total requirements -health and economic risks of accidents -for the waste disposal system from pickup of spent fuel at a nuclear reactor or of solidified high-level-defense wastes at a reprocessing plant until closure of the repository.The study outlines statutory regulations and requirements of risk assessment, requirements for licensing information, and state of knowledge of accident consequence analysis and risk-assessment methods. We hope that this review describes current capabilities -their strengths and weaknesses -and evaluates the suitability of available methods for waste-disposal systems.2-1 * Points near origin (zero) excluded. Source: Reference 11.
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