DATA COLLECTION HANDBOOK TO SUPPORT MODELING IMPACTS OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL IN SOIL
C. Yu, C. Loureiro⁽¹⁾, J.-J. Cheng, L.G. Jones, Y.Y. Wang, Y.P. Chia,^* and E. Faillace

Environmental Assessment and Information Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, April 1993

Work sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health Office of Environmental Guidance Assistant Secretary for Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Office of Environmental Restoration

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTATION

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

• Contamination
• INITIAL CONCENTRATIONS OF PRINCIPAL RADIONUCLIDES
• THICKNESS OF CONTAMINATED ZONE
• AREA OF CONTAMINATED ZONE
• DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENTS
• LEACH RATE
• RADIATION DOSE LIMIT
• ELAPSED TIME OF WASTE PLACEMENT
• RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATION IN GROUNDWATER
• Soil
• SOIL DENSITY
• TOTAL POROSITY
• EFFECTIVE POROSITY
• HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
• VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT
• THICKNESS OF UNCONTAMINATED UNSATURATED ZONE
• COVER DEPTH
• Water
• PRECIPITATION RATE
• RUNOFF COEFFICIENT
• IRRIGATION RATE
• EVAPOTRANSPIRATION COEFFICIENT
• SOIL-SPECIFIC EXPONENTIAL b PARAMETER
• EROSION RATE
• HYDRAULIC GRADIENT
• HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
• LENGTH OF CONTAMINATED ZONE PARALLEL TO THE AQUIFER FLOW
• WATERSHED AREA FOR NEARBY STREAM OR POND
• WATER TABLE DROP RATE
• WELL-PUMP INTAKE DEPTH
• Ingestion
• DEPTH OF ROOTS
• SOIL INGESTION RATE
• SEAFOOD CONSUMPTION RATE
• FRUIT, VEGETABLE, AND GRAIN CONSUMPTION RATE
• LEAFY VEGETABLE CONSUMPTION RATE
• LIVESTOCK WATER INTAKE RATE FOR BEEF CATTLE AND MILK COWS
• MEAT AND POULTRY CONSUMPTION RATE
• MILK CONSUMPTION RATE
• DRINKING WATER INTAKE RATE
• Occupancy (Inhalation & External Parameters)
• SHIELDING FACTOR FOR EXTERNAL GAMMA RADIATION
• INHALATION RATE
• SHAPE FACTOR
• AVERAGE ANNUAL WIND SPEED
• FRACTION OF TIME SPENT INDOORS ON-SITE
• FRACTION OF TIME SPENT OUTDOORS ON-SITE
• MASS LOADING FOR INHALATION
• SHIELDING FACTOR FOR INHALATION PATHWAY
• Radon
• EFFECTIVE RADON DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT
• RADON EMANATION COEFFICIENT
• RADON VERTICAL DIMENSION OF MIXING
• AVERAGE BUILDING AIR EXCHANGE RATE
• BUILDING ROOM HEIGHT
• BUILDING INDOOR AREA FACTOR
• BUILDING FOUNDATION THICKNESS
• FOUNDATION DEPTH BELOW GROUND SURFACE

• REFERENCES
• FIGURES
• U.S. Department of Agriculture Method for Naming Soils
• Distribution of Average Annual Precipitation Rates over the U.S. Continental Territory
• Distribution of Average Annual Potential Evapotranspiration Rates over the U.S. Continental Territory
• Irregularly Shaped Contaminated Zone Enclosed by Four Annuli