Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: e6522906-ea8a-4279-a417-3ba3eec01014
Document Type: esrp
Title: URANIUM FUEL CYCLE IMPACTS
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 5
Section ID: 5.7
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10% of 10 CFR 20 for total processing 26 annual fuel requirements for model LWR Fission and activation products 5.9 x 10-6 Solids (buried onsite): Other than high level (shallow) 11,300 9100 Ci comes from low-level reactor wastes, and 1500 Ci comes from reactor decontamination and decommissioning—buried at land burial facilities. 600 Ci comes from mills—included in tailings returned to ground. Approximately 60 Ci comes from conversion and spent-fuel storage. No significant effluent to the environment. TRU and HLW (deep) 1.1 x 107 Buried at Federal Repository Effluents—thermal (billions of British thermal units) 4063 < 5% of model 1,000 MWe LWR Transportation (person-rem): Exposure of workers and general public Occupational exposure (person-rem) 2.5 22.6 From reprocessing and waste management Table 5.7-A-1. (contd) Environmental Considerations Total Maximum effect per annual fuel total requirement or reference reactor year of model 1000 MWe LWR NUREG-1555 5.7-14 October 1999 Notes: (a) In some cases where no entry appears, it is clear from the background documents that the matter was addressed and that, in effect, the Table should be read as if a specific zero entry had been made. However, there are other areas that are not addressed at all in the Table. Table S-3 does not include health effects from the effluents described in the Table, or estimates of releases of radon-222 from the uranium fuel cycle or estimates of technetium-99 released from waste-management or reprocessing activities. These issues may be the subject of litigation in the individual licensing procedures. Data supporting this table are given in the “Environmental Survey of the Uranium Fuel Cycle,” WASH-1248, April 1974; the “Environmental Survey of the Reprocessing and Waste Management Portion of the LWR Fuel Cycle,” NUREG-0116 (Supp. 1 to WASH-1248); the “ Public Comments and Task Force Responses Regarding the Environmental Survey of the Reprocessing and Waste Management Portions