Remote Plutonium Contamination and Total Inventories from Rocky Flats

Krey, P.W.

doi:10.1097/00004032-197602000-00009

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“…One study was a reanalysis of a previous investigation (119,120) reporting an excess of cancer deaths among people living near the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. The later study again found elevated cancer rates in certain census tracts near Denver, but the geographic pattern of excess cancers did not appear to correlate with proximity to Rocky Flats (121,122).…”

Section: Q Complex Cleanup: the Environmental Legacy Of Nuclear Weapomentioning

confidence: 79%

Complex cleanup: the environmental legacy of nuclear weapons production

1992

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NOTE: OTA appreciates and is grateful for the valuable assistance and thoughtful critiques provided by the advisory panel members.The panel does not, however, necessarily approve, disapprove, or endorse this report. OTA assumes full responsibility for the report and the accuracy of its contents. Summary "Man is here only for a limited time, and he borrows the natural resources of water, land and air from his children who carry on his cultural heritage to the end of time. Indian people and non-Indians must have a responsibility to these resources for generations yet unborn. One must hand over the stewardship of his natural resources to the future generations in the same condition, if not as close to the one that existed when his generation was entrusted to be the caretaker. This is the challenge of highest order this nation faces today." l INTRODUCTIONDuring World World II the Nation's scientific elite collaborated with the military to produce the first atomic bomb---a weapon of unprecedented destructive power that later became the key element of U.S. defense strategy. The development of nuclear weapons during and after the war required an enormous dedication of talent and resources, and was the focus of prodigious technical and scientific efforts. For decades the Nation's attention was directed toward producing such weapons to provide what military planners believed to be the necessary deterrent force to avoid a superpower war. The Department of Energy and its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission, diligently produced tens of thousands of warheads over the past five decades.The success of this production system, however, came at a price that few who promoted this enterprise could have anticipated. Today, it is evident that the vast network of weapons facilities, located on thousands of square miles of Federal reservations in 13 States, has produced widespread contamination of the environment with toxic chemicals and radionuclides. Serious questions have been raised about the potential human health threats posed by such contamination.It is difficult to appreciate the scale of what is now known as the Nuclear Weapons Complex unless one has actually viewed the vast, tumbleweed-tossed plains of the Hanford Reservation; seen the tank farm at Savannah River where more than 50 underground tanks-each as big as the Capitol dome-house the high-level radioactive waste that inevitably results from plutonium production; 01 visited the area of east Tennessee, known as Site X during World War II, where the equivalent of the annual timber output of Minnesota was used to build what was then the largest roofed structure in the world. It is difficult, without seeing them, to imagine the huge concrete rooms known as "canyons" in which weapon-grade plutonium is chemically separated from other constituents in irradiated fue elements behind thick protective walls, where the radioactivity is so intense that all work must be done by robotic manipulators.The Nuclear Weapons Complex is an industria empire-a collection of enormous fact...

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Section: Q Complex Cleanup: the Environmental Legacy Of Nuclear Weapomentioning

confidence: 79%

Complex cleanup: the environmental legacy of nuclear weapons production

1992

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“…The estimated inventory of Pu deposited off site was reported by Krey (1976) as 3.4 k 0.9 Ci on the basis of soil-sampling and -analysis results.…”

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“…This number was stated to be 3.4 k 0.9 Ci by Krey (1976). From WHO (1983) the effective dose equivalent per unit activity of 239Pu released from nuclear installations to the air is lo-'' man-Sv Bq-' .…”

Section: An Example Calculation For the Rocky Flats Plantmentioning

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Technical Basis of Dose Reconstruction

Anspaugh

2000

Nuclear Physical Methods in Radioecological Investigations of Nuclear Test Sites

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“…Also, Smith and Ellis (1982) have used Pb-210 and the fallout radionuclides, 240 to resolve the annual cyclicity in the estuarine sedimentation patterns of the Saguenay Fjord (Canada) and to identify the source function for sediment inputs. Krey (1976), used mass spectrometric techniques to identify the origins of plutonium in soil samples. Their identification is based on the fact that plutonium from different sources is characterized by distinct isotopic ratios.…”

Section: -C Radionuclide Time History Reconstruction In Fresh Watermentioning

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The history of plutonium and cesium-137 contamination of the Ob River delta sediments

Panteleyev¹

1995

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Remote Plutonium Contamination and Total Inventories from Rocky Flats

Cited by 66 publications

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Complex cleanup: the environmental legacy of nuclear weapons production

Complex cleanup: the environmental legacy of nuclear weapons production

Technical Basis of Dose Reconstruction

The history of plutonium and cesium-137 contamination of the Ob River delta sediments

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