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Draft Columbia River pathway report. Phase I of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project. PNL-7411 HEDR, UC-707 (1990)
| Author | Pacific Northwest Laboratory |
| Date | July 1990 |
| Classification | 3.01.8.43/23 (UNITED STATES - SITES - HANFORD) |
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ABSTRACT This report summarizes the water pathway portion of the first phase of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project, conducted by Battelle staff at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory under the direction of an independent Technical Steering Panel. The HEDR Project is estimating radiation doses that could have been received by the public from the Department of Energy's Hanford Site, in southeastern Washington State. Phase I of the water-pathway dose reconstruction sought to determine whether dose estimates could be calculated for populations in the area from above the Hanford Site at Priest Rapids Dam to below the site at McNary Dam from January 1964 to December 1966. Of the potential sources of radionuclides from the river, fish consumption was the most important. Doses from drinking water were lower at Pasco than at Richland and lower at Kennewick than at Pasco. The median values of preliminary dose estimates calculated by HEDR are similar to independent, previously published estimates of average doses to Richland residents. Later phases of the HEDR Project will address dose estimates for periods other than 1964-1966 and for populations downstream of McNary Dam.
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