Re: Tritiiun Effluent Values

[Bob Hearn <rah@america.net>]

The reference is NUREG/CR-2907,Radioactive Materials Released from Nuclear Power Plants, Annual Report 1992, BNL-NUREG-51581, Vol. 13, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. (J. Tichler, K. Doty, and J. Cogemi), or subsequent later volume of the same publication.

Bob Hearn
rah@america.net

At 12:10 PM 3/10/97 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm commenting on a action memo for the BNL
>site.  In the memo the non rad author states: "A
>typical nuclear reactor in the US releases
>between 0.1 and 10 Ci/y per megawatt of
>generating capacity (Rogers, 1986)"
>
>Is that right?  For a 1000 MWe plant that means
>an upper bound of 10,000 Ci of tritium.  I don't
>think this is right.  Does anyone know the real
>value?
>
>Mark Winslow
>US EPA - Region II
>winslow.mark@epamail.epa.gov
>
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