Working Group

Scope: This standard provides guidance on suitable methodologies for developing estimates and forecasts of human population distribution around civilian and Federal nuclear facility sites. The standard is intended to provide applicants and DOE/NNSA professionals with methodologies that are generally acceptable in the demographic community and to facilitate the NRC review of site suitability relative to population considerations.

Scope: This standard establishes criteria for use in developing and implementing an integrated radiological environmental monitoring program focusing on ambient air, surface water, and biota. It also provides criteria on the use of resultant environmental data collected near nuclear facilities to evaluate the impact of facility operations on the surrounding population and environment.

Scope: This standard, ANSI/ANS-16.1-2003, provides a uniform procedure to measure and index the release of radionuclides from waste forms as a result of leaching in demineralized water for 5 days. The results of this procedure do not apply to any specific environmental situation except through correlative studies of actual disposal site conditions. The test presented in this standard has much in common with the original International Atomic Energy Agency proposal and has by now become familiar to those working in the radioactive waste-form development field. It contains the provisions published in the original version of this standard in 1986.

Scope: This standard establishes criteria and processes for determining the validity of radioanalytical data for waste management and environmental remediation. These applications include site characterization, waste acceptance, waste certification, waste treatment design, process control, risk communication, litigation, and other applications as deemed necessary.