Abstract
A series of radiological surveillance studies was conducted at Dresden Nuclear Power Station by the Radiological Engineering Laboratory of the Division of Environmental Radiation which provided data on 131I concentrations observed in the plant, the plant's effluent, and the environment. Based on the Dresden study data, an evaluation is made in this paper of the public health significance of 131I discharges from BWR nuclear power plants. The in-plant barriers to the transport of 131I through a BWR nuclear power plant to the site environs were found to function at a high efficiency. As a result, the critical phase of the environmental surveillance program for Dresden, a BWR without gaseous holdup, was concluded to be the submersion dose from noble gases, not 131I in milk. For a BWR nuclear power plant employing gaseous holdup, it was concluded that the ingestion 131I dose may be more limiting than the submersion dose from noble gases.
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