Savannah River Plant

Contact D. S. Cramer, Savannah River Plant, Aiken, SC 29868... 

The failure events were obtained from Savannah River Plant sources such as Reactor Incident Reports, daily logs, and operating summaries. The records include over 4,400 events going back to 1970 for an effective average of 3 operating nuclear reactors. Some entries represent data averaging about 110 reactor years experience accumulated since operation began. 

G. A. Russell, E. R. Holcomb, H. P. Landon, L. F. Processing of Irradiated, Enriched Uranium Fuels at the Savannah River Plant. U.S. DDE Report DP-1500,... 

Am may enter surface water from nuclear power plants sited on the shores. A region of possible concern is the Great Lakes where 35 nuclear facilities are located in the lakes basin. A sample of water from Lake Ontario collected in 1985 and fdtered through a 0.45 pm Millipore filter contained 0.3 mBq 241Am/L (8 fCi/L) (Platford and Joshi 1986). A few water samples from the Savannah River, which received runoff and discharges from the DOE Savannah River Plant, contained 0.05 fCi 241Am/L (2 pBq/L), about the same levels as other American rivers (DOE 1980). 

Report on Savannah River Plant High-Level Waste Management, DPSP-86-1164, (December 31,1986)... 

Table I. Radon Concentrations and Radiation Dose Rate Equivalent to Epithelial Cells of the Occupants of Residential and Plant Buildings In and Near the Savannah River Plant...

Savannah River Plant, Test well DRB6. . 9.5 1.0... 

Marine, I. W., Geochemistry of ground water at the Savannah River Plant, Savannah River Laboratory Report DP-1356, Aiken, South Carolina, 102 p., 1976. 

Brisbin, I.L., Jr. M.A. Staton, J.E. Pinder, III, and R.A. Geiger. 1974. Radiocesium concentrations of snakes from contaminated and non-contaminated habitats of the AEC Savannah River Plant. Copeia 1974 (2) 501-506. 

Several versions of this reaction have been used for separating deuterium and tritium the G-S version operates in the liquid phase, without a catalyst, at two temperatures. Used at the Savannah River plant of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and at several Canadian plants. 

Other multiphase ceramics. Numerous multiphase ceramic formulations for conditioning of various wastes have been designed (Harker 1988). These so-called tailored ceramics were developed for immobilization of complex defence wastes at the Savannah River Plant and Rockwell Hanford Operation (Harker 1988). Tailored ceramics include ACT and REE hosts (fluorite-structure solid solutions, zirconolite. 

It is particularly interesting to evaluate the contribution of a major nuclear facility, such as the Savannah River Plant, to the radiation dose to the population. Inasmuch as Beaufort, S. C., receives its drinking water primarily from the Savannah River, the expected body burdens may be extrapolated from tritium concentrations of the river at Beaufort. As mentioned previously, the difference between the concentrations at Augusta, Ga., and Beaufort, S. C., may be attributed to the operation of the Savannah River Plant. The difference averages approximately 4 nCi/liter and corresponds to 0.8 mrem./a. This represents 0.5% of the radiation protection guide for an average dose to a suitable sample of the population. 

Heavy water [11105-15-0], D20, was produced by a combination of electrolysis and catalytic exchange reactions. Some nuclear reactors (qv) require heavy water as a moderator of neutrons. Plants for the production of heavy water were built by the U.S. government during Wodd War II. These plants, located at Trail, British Columbia, Moigantown, West Virginia, and Savannah River, South Carolina, have been shut down except for a portion of the Savannah River plant, which produces heavy water by a three-stage process (see Deuterium and tritium) an H2S/H2O exchange process produces 15% D20 a vacuum distillation increases the concentration to 90% D20 an electrolysis system produces 99.75% D20 (58). 

MARTER, W.L. (1967). Ground waste disposal practices at the Savannah River Plant, page 95 in Disposal of Radioactive Wastes into the Ground (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna). 

Characterization of Borosilicate Glass-Containing Savannah River Plant Radioactive Waste... 

An environmental assessment 1) concluding that borosilicate glass is suitable for the immobilization of Savannah River Plant (SRP) waste has recently been published by the Department of Energy. 

Bibler, N. E. Smith, P. Kent, "Characterization of Boro-silicate Glass Containing Savannah River Plant Radioactive Waste." To be published in Proceedings of the Materials Characterization Conference, August 16-18, 1982, Alfred, NY. 

Pinder etal. (1985) deduced NSA values in the range 20-41 m2d kg-1 from measurements of 238Pu in corn near the Savannah River Plant. Similar values also apply to non-radioactive trace elements. Allcroft et al. (1965) made a series of measurements of fluorine in herbage on a farm near Stoke-on-Trent and also recorded fallout of fluorine in a nearby deposit gauge. During the period of study (1956-61) the productivity of the pasture was improved, and the yearly average NSA declined from 59 to 27 m2d kg-1 (Chamberlain, 1970). When productivity is low, the time T0 before maturity is increased, and so is the NSA (Table 2.17). Also XG may be increased, since the rate of field loss seems to be related to growth rate. 

Plutonium is deposited on plant tissues by fallout and by resuspension from soil. Pinder et al. (1985) and Pinder McLeod (1988) measured 238Pu and 239+240pu in topsoil and in corn and sunflower foliage near the Savannah River Plant. Because the ratio of Pu isotopes in contemporary fallout was different from that in soil, Pinder et al. were able to estimate how much of the Pu on the foliage derived from the soil. They found that, at harvest, resuspended soil on foliage amounted to about 0.8 g per m2 of ground area. 

The Savannah River Plant site, United States, in which a confined Cretaceous aquifer reaches a depth of 300 m (Marine, 1979)... 

The Savannah River Plant (SRP) was requested to separate approximately 5 kg of from about 850 kg of plutonium... 

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