Cleanup of radioactive mud spill U20aa postshot drilling site NTS

Abstract

PRIOR TO CLEANUP PROCEDURES 4. MUD SUMP-FOLLOWING CLEANUP PRXEMTRES 5. DECONTAMINATION EQUIPMENT IN AREA 2 , 6. FOLLLIWING INITIAL MUD EU3FlOVA.L IN AREA 3 7. VACUUM CLEANING SYSTE_hl 8. PRIOR TO CLEANUP IN AREA 4 9. DURING CLEANUP IN AREA 4-SHOVELING & SAGGING 0. .DURING CLEANUP IN AREA 5-SHaVELING .& BAGGING .11. FOLLLIWIhG CLEANUP IN AREA 5 12. EARTHEN DAM & END OF CONTAPilINATED MUD FIX)id

Cleanup procedures at the Nevada Test Site and at other radioactively contaminated sites including representative costs of cleanup and treatment of contaminated areas

“…2.1. 7 Area 20 Straume et al (1977Straume et al ( , 1978 report on the cleanup of a large area of rugged terrain following a spill of radioactively contaminated mud. Precleanup surveys indicated that 103 Ru and 106 Ru/Rh were the primary nuclides present, with total estimated activity at the time of release of 38 and 6 Ci (1.41 X 10 12 and 2.22 X 10 11 Bq), respectively.…”