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Whose Radioactivity Is This Anyway? Washington State’s Perspective on Environmental Compliance

Whose Radioactivity Is This Anyway? Washington State’s Perspective on Environmental Compliance. Lynn Albin Washington State Department of Health June 24, 2002. Role of WA State With Respect to Environmental Monitoring. Ensure protection of public, worker health and the environment

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Whose Radioactivity Is This Anyway? Washington State’s Perspective on Environmental Compliance

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  1. Whose Radioactivity Is This Anyway? Washington State’s Perspective on Environmental Compliance Lynn Albin Washington State Department of Health June 24, 2002

  2. Role of WA State With Respect to Environmental Monitoring • Ensure protection of public, worker health and the environment • Determine if there are changing trends • Provide QA (oversite) of facility monitoring • Support Clean-up activities • Respond to Incidents

  3. Media Sampled • Air • Offsite Drinking Water • Fish • Milk • Food Crops • Soil, sediment • Surface waters • Ambient gamma

  4. USDOE Hanford Site • 1943 Selected as Pu production plant • 1945 3 reactors in full operation • Cold War era – 6 additional reactors built • 1986 Last reactor shut down • Present mission – Research, Clean-up

  5. Special Investigations • Contamination in storm drain, cooling tower sediment, spray ponds • Sanitary Sewer • USDOE site restoration

  6. Data Quality Review

  7. Data Quality Review

  8. Upcoming Issues • USDOE Vitrification Plant • Dry Cask Storage • National Monument Status • Release from Lease for WNP 1,4

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