NRC environmental TLDs

["D. Kosloff" <dkosloff@ncweb.com>]

The final issue of NUREG 0837 was issued in March 1998 for the last quarter
of 1997.

Don Kosloff dkosloff@ncweb.com
2910 Main St, Perry OH 44081

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> The reports are indeed available to everyone.  In 1982 I had reason to
> consult the environmental monitoring reports on TMI and they were in the
> federal documents section of the University of Washington library.
> Similarly, in 1986, Hanford (DOE Richland Operations Office) released
> thousands of pages of environmental monitoring data, much of it only
> slightly reduced from raw data, that my students at Western Washington
> University were able to use as source material.
>
> Ruth Weiner
> ruth_weiner@msn.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Kosloff <dkosloff@ncweb.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 5:03 PM
> Subject: Re: RADSAFE digest 3135
>
>
> >The utility that owns each plant is required to submit at least annually
a
> >written report to the NRC with the results of their environmental
sampling,
> >discharges, and local radiation measurements.  These reports are
available
> >at the NRC Local Public Document Room (PDR) for the plant.  NRC
inspectors,
> >sometimes accompanied by state personnel, also inspect utilitiy
> >implementation of the sampling and measurement programs.  The inspection
> >reports are also in the PDR.  The NRC TLD Direct Radiation Monitoring
> >Network was established in 1979 to measure ambient radiation levels
around
> >NRC licensed facilities.  At each monitored facility, several TLD
stations
> >are placed side by side with those of the licensee to allow for
independent
> >verification of the licensee's environmental radiation monitoring
program.
> >The results are published quarterly in NUREG-0837, "NRC TLD Direct
> Radiation
> >Monitoring Network".

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