Re: Nuclear Laundry

[jack bell <bellstar@erols.com>]

"jskirk@mailexcite.com" wrote:

> To my understanding, the NRC and EPA are planning to implement a national
> survey to determine if additional regulations are needed to further restrict
> discharges to sewers.  Plans for conducting this survey resulted from a
> recommendation by the US General Accounting Office (GAO) report entitled
> "Action Needed to Control Radioactive Contamination at Sewage Treatment
> Plants" (GAO/RCED-94-133, May 1994).  The GAO questioned whether existing
> regulations were sufficiently protective of public health and safety because
> of an incident where radioactive contaminants were detected at elevated
> concentrations at a Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) in the midwest.

Will this "guidance" include NORM?

I'm sure glad that somebody else is tasked to come up with the "concentration to
dose factors".  That sounds like mission impossible!  And, assuming that it is
possible, how to relate concentrations (in what?) to releases at facilities?

Just my own opinion.

Jack Bell, bellstar@erols.com

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