[ RadSafe ] Treating Coal-fired plant waste as TENORM
JPreisig at aol.com
JPreisig at aol.com
Mon Dec 8 19:06:40 CST 2014
Radsafe,
Ever hear of a Pitot tube??? Find books on Air Sampling and
Analysis. Man, this takes me back to my Air Sampling and Analysis course with Ray
Manganelli and Jill Lipoti at Rutgers. Can't even remember what the book
was called, but it was good reading. Frank Haughey made me take Air
Sampling instead of Mathematical Physics.
EPA documents must be loaded with information (see their websites
also) on how to measure Radon and how to grab samples. The carbon absorber
test kits were around New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The
Reading Prong (geologically speaking) is right next to New Jersey. People
in Pennsylvania still test for Radon in their homes and need to. You can
measure stack effluents with a pitot tube, provided you make the
measurements correctly. Search the internet, baby. It is all out there.
Regards, Joe Preisig
PS Perhaps also check the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection (Radiation Protection Programs) website and the archives there. NJDEP
RPP still has a Radon group, I think, and you could call or email them, if
needed. NJDEP RPP was a nice place to work. Some NJDEP RPP folks lurk on
Radsafe, I think. Hi Herb!!!!
In a message dated 12/8/2014 7:50:46 P.M. E.sce place to worktern Standard
Time, sutherln at gmail.com writes:
The IAEA technical document mentioned above made for excellent
reading. I am still at a loss as to how or if Rn emissions are
measured exiting the stack.
Can or should the the avg of ~20pCi/L residential concentration be
interchangeable with what the gas plant could be expected to receive ?
(probably safe to assume it would be slightly higher)
and if this was the case could that value be thrown into:
Natural gas = 0.00786 Mcf (1,000 cubic feet)
Amount of fuel used to generate one kilowatthour (kWh):
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=667&t=3
And then work backwards from total MW Capacity of the plant to
determine hourly/daily/yearly totals?
Thanks,
-Nathan
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Brad Keck <bradkeck at mac.com> wrote:
> To offer up an AAHP plug on this topic, there is a CEU module at the
Mountain & Plains Research and Learning Center (Ma Perc) that does a very
good walkthrough of the factors that relate radon in natural gas to dose at
the consumer level. "Radon Progeny Doses and Risks" is a video and slide
show presentation if you are interested :}
>
> I believe the speakers were Ralph Johnson and Lynn McKay.....
>
> Brad
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2014, at 1:18 PM, stewart farber wrote:
>
>> Regarding radon dose from natural gas [ NG ], I recall that the EPA
carried out and published a 20 or 30 page analysis back in the early 1970s to
assess whether it was justified to require the NG industry to build some
type of storage tanks to hold up delivery of NG when it entered a pipeline
for delivery to consumers, so less Rn dose would result in different
situations At the time they were looking at the use of NG for unvented uses in
homes — stove burners and ovens, and unvented space heaters. They calculated
that building large NG holdup tanks would avoid [ if memory serves ]
radiation dose to the bronchial epethelium of the population exposed totaling
many tens of millions of person-rem to the US public. However, the holdup
tanks would cost a some millions of dollars so their bottom line was that
they did not feel holding up natural gas delivery to end consumers was worth
spending a few $ per person rem of lung dose avoided.
>>
>> I recall thinking of the EPA’s disregard of substantial radon dose from
NG use many times when the EPA and other regulatory agencies made an major
licensing issue about trivial theoretical radiation doses delivered
thousands of years in the future from nuclear waste disposal in deep geological
repositories, or the NRC required nuclear plants to spend tens of millions
of dollars for some effluent control system to avoid a integrated person-rem
to the general public with individual doses of micro-rem.
>>
>> Ain’t it awful? It’s tough for an industry like nuclear power that
is held to a completely different standard regarding radiation dose to the
public than other power generation or energy related industries.
>>
>> Stewart Farber, MSPH
>> Farber Medical Solutions, LLC
>> PO Box 144
>> Old Saybrook, CT 06475
>>
>> farber-medical.com
>> farber at farbermed.com
>> [203] 441-8433 [o]
>> [203] 522-2817 [m]
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 8, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Nathan Sutherland <sutherln at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>> The radon angle on this is an interesting one, in canada
>>> drilling/fracking operations look to be getting ahead of the game in
>>> their employ of RSO's on site. To many I have spoken with, it is
>>> looking likely that this practice could become something that ends up
>>> being mandated by our regulator. dose received would depend highly on
>>> the geography, and a quick google seems to indicate that radon levels
>>> transported to residential customers would be a factor of the geology
>>> of the source and relative distance to the operation (decay time).
>>> Seems like at a gas fired plant, it would be difficult to get any
>>> representative numbers for the industry as a whole, but given how
>>> close the stations are to residential neighbourhoods id love to hear
>>> some more information on this!
>>>
>>> -Nathan
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM, ROY HERREN <royherren2005 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>>>> Yes indeed, Doug's referenced article sums up the double standard
between the waste from coal and that of nuclear power rather nicely. One
can't help but wonder how natural gas would fair by comparison against nuclear
power. One good part about burning huge quantities of natural gas is that
one isn't left with mountains of left over ash, however I am left to wonder
about he quantity of radon gas emissions from burning natural gas. Is the
a potential for huge plumes of radon daughter products falling out from
the natural gas power plants smoke stacks? While this question may well
sound alarmist, it's not outside the realm of possibilities when one considers
previous stack emissions from copper smelters, wherein adjacent smelter
town communities were heavily contaminated from lead fall out.
>>>> Roy Herren
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, December 7, 2014 5:28 AM, Doug Aitken <JAitken at slb.com>
wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> An oldie, but goodie:
>>>> http://web.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html
>>>> Regards
>>>> Doug
>>>>
>>>> Doug Aitken
>>>> Cell phone: 713-562-8585
>>>> QHSE Advisor, D&M Operations Support
>>>> Schlumberger Technology Corporation
>>>> c/o Kathy Trosclair
>>>> 300 Schlumberger Drive, MD15,
>>>> Sugar Land, Texas 77478
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Dan McCarn
>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 10:24 AM
>>>> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing
List
>>>> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] 10 warmest years on record
>>>>
>>>> Dear Doug:
>>>>
>>>> That would mean that farmers who use water with trace radium would
have to remediate their TENORM soils when accumulation exceeds a specified
norm; Or that waste from most rare-earth mining would have to be considered
TENORM.
>>>>
>>>> Dan ii
>>>>
>>>> Dan W McCarn, Geologist
>>>> 108 Sherwood Blvd
>>>> Los Alamos, NM 87544-3425
>>>> +1-505-672-2014 (Home – New Mexico)
>>>> +1-505-670-8123 (Mobile - New Mexico)
>>>> HotGreenChile at gmail.com (Private email) HotGreenChile at gmail dot com
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Doug Aitken <JAitken at slb.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Does not a lot of this waste from coal fired power stations contain a
>>>>> significant amount of radioactivity? And should it not be treated as
TENORM?
>>>>> That would put the cat among the pigeons.....
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Doug
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug Aitken
>>>>> Cell phone: 713-562-8585
>>>>> QHSE Advisor, D&M Operations Support
>>>>> Schlumberger Technology Corporation
>>>>> c/o Kathy Trosclair
>>>>> 300 Schlumberger Drive, MD15,
>>>>> Sugar Land, Texas 77478
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:
>>>>> radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of ROY HERREN
>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 9:15 PM
>>>>> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing
>>>>> List
>>>>> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] 10 warmest years on record
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a double standard at work here regarding waste post energy
>>>>> production? What is the coal fired energy industries long term
>>>>> plan/solution for the environmentally acceptable disposal of well
over
>>>>> a century of accumulated waste? See ‘Thick Orange Gooey Stuff’
With
>>>>> Arsenic, Lead Found In River Near Duke Energy Power PlantandNew Coal
>>>>> Ash Leaks Found at Duke Energy’s Buck Power Plant » EcoWatch
>>>>> Roy Herren
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, December 5, 2014 6:24 AM, "Sandgren, Peter" <
>>>>> Peter.Sandgren at ct.gov> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No agenda here - just relaying what has been reported:
>>>>>
http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/10-warmest-years-global
>>>>> ly It’s official: 2013 is tied with 2003 as the fourth warmest year
>>>>> for Planet Earth since modern record-keeping began more than 130
years
>>>>> ago. The mean global temperature rose 1.12°F above the 20th century
>>>>> average. That means the 10 warmest years on record have all happened
>>>>> since 1998, with
>>>>> 2010 still on top as the warmest of all. The only year in the entire
>>>>> 20th century that was warmer than 2013, and the only one remaining in
>>>>> the top 10, was 1998. This also marks the 37th straight year where
the
>>>>> global temperature was above the long term average.
>>>>>
>>>>> (Google News) US, British data show 2014 could be hottest year on
>>>>> record
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/11/27/us-climatechange-heat-idUKKCN
>>>>> 0JB1EM20141127
>>>>>
>>>>> P. SANDGREN
>>>>> CT DESPP - DEMHS
>>>>> RAD EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
>>>>> 25 SIGOURNEY ST., HARTFORD, CT
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/24/2014 12:49 PM, JPreisig at aol.com wrote:
>>>>>> Radsafe,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See google news --- antarctic sea ice .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not only is there more Antarctic Ice, but it is also now
>>>>>> thicker, as determined by underwater robotic vessels.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So much for global warming????
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Joe Preisig
>>>>>
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