The UK disposal of solid radioactive waste into the Atlantic Ocean and its environmental impact

Review and evaluation of principles used in the estimation of radiation doses associated with the practice of deepsea disposal of low-level radioactive waste

“…Because of these maximizing assumptions and others elsewhere in both parts of the model (oceanographic and radiological), the doses that would result from release rates at the limits calculated would in prr_ctice probably be very much less than the dose 1 imit [e.g., 5 mSv (500 mrem) forth~ whole body]. This is confirmed in the case of radium-2?6, for example, for which the release rate limit is of the same order as the natural production rate; while the natural dose rntes from marine radium-2?6 are known to be much less tb~n the ICRP dose limi~ (Mitchell and Shepherd 1981).…”