Overview of the Regulation of Low Dose Radiation in the Nuclear and Non-nuclear Industries.

Menon, S. ; Valencia, L. ; Teunckens, L.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Radiation doses;    Nuclear industry;    Regulations;    Low-level radioactive materials;    Decommissioning;   

RP-ID  :  DE2004825761

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

Now that increasing numbers of nuclear power stations are reaching the end of their commercially useful lives, the management of the large quantities of very low level radioactive material that arises during their decommissioning has become a major subject of discussion, with very significant economic implications. Much of this material can, in an environmentally advantageous manner, be recycled for reuse without radiological restrictions. Much larger quantities--2-3 orders of magnitude larger--of material, radiologically similar to the candidate material for recycling from the nuclear industry, arise in non-nuclear industries like coal, fertilizer, oil and gas, mining, etc. In such industries, naturally occurring radioactivity is artificially concentrated in products, by-products or waste to form TENORM (Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material).