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2002:23 Validation of dose calculation
This report describes a validation of the computer codes RESRAD-RECYCLE and CERISE, which are used to estimate radiation doses due to the recycling of scrap metal. Calculated external radiation doses to ... Brun-Yaba, Charley Yu, Jing-Jy Cheng, Jan Bjerler and Alexander Williams. SSI English This report describes a validation of the computer codes RESRAD-RECYCLE and CERISE, which are used to estimate radiation...
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2002:22 Review of data types for the SKB site investigation programme
(SIP) to characterise the geology and surface ecosystems in areas around potential sites for a planned repository for spent nuclear fuel. This report reviews site specific and generic data types needed to characterise ... Focus is on the types of data that make up the different elements of radiological assessment models and how the data used relate to site-specific characteristics. The relevance of the SIP to the development...
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2002:15 Regulator’s Workshop on The Role of Future Society and Biosphere in Demonstrating Compliance with High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Standards and Regulations
summarizes the proceedings of a workshop, co-sponsored by the U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority (SSI), held September 11–13, 2001 in Stockholm, Sweden. ... geological disposal and using performance assessment methodology. The main objective of the Workshop was to develop a common understanding among regulators of the role of society and the biosphere in demonstrating...
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2002:20 Expert Opinion in SR 97 and the SKI/SSI Joint Review of SR 97
The role of sensitivity and uncertainty analyses for radioactive waste disposal assessments is reviewed. The report covers a description of the these concepts were applied in the authorities’ review of ... of the safety report SR 97. Stephen Hora SSI English The role of sensitivity and uncertainty analyses for radioactive waste disposal assessments is reviewed. The report covers a description of the these...
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2002:18 A Review of Models for Dose Assessment Employed by SKB in the Renewed Safety Assessment for SFR 1
document provides a critical review, on behalf of SSI, of the models employed by the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co (SKB) for dose assessment in the renewed safety assessment for the final repository ... Forsmark repository within a time frame beginning in 3000 AD and extending beyond 7500 AD. Five biosphere models (for coasts, lakes, agriculture, mires and wells) are described in Report TR-01-04. The principal...
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2002:17 Review of Project SAFE: Comments on biosphere conceptual model description and risk assessment methodology
The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company’s (SKB’s) most recent assessment of the safety of the Forsmark repository for low-level and intermediatelevel waste (Project SAFE) is currently undergoing ... biosphere system, and (ii) SKB’s risk assessment methodology. We have reviewed the biosphere system interaction matrix and how this has been used in the identification, justification and description of biosphere...
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2002:16 Epidemiologic Studies of Cellular Telephones and Cancer Risk – A Review
Cellular telephones emit and receive radiofrequency (RF) signals between about 450 and 2200 MHz which fall in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. A RF wave from a cellular telephone contains ... energy than an x-ray and is not capable of inducing ionizations or damaging DNA. The rapid and widespread use of this technology, however, has raised concern over possible adverse health effects, in particular...
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2002:19 Expert Judgement Elicitation
The report ... describes a trial expert panel elicitation with 4 experts in the field of radioecology. Stephen Hora and Mikael Jensen SSI English The report describes a trial expert panel elicitation with 4 experts in the...
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2002:13 SSI’s review of SKB’s RD&D programme 2001
In the report SSI’s review of SKB’s RD&D programme ... other things, the decision making process, the need for a strategy document, SKB’s safety and system analysis and SKB’s biosphere studies Björn Hedberg et..al. SSI English In the report SSI’s review of SKB’s ... other things, the decision making process, the need for a strategy document, SKB’s safety and system analysis and SKB’s biosphere studies...
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2002:14 Review of C-14 inventory for the SFR facility
difficult to measure and to control because of its mobility. This report documents a review of the C-14 inventory material submitted by SKB for the SFR-facility, to determine its validity and comment on the ... Conclusions are drawn upon: the chemical form of the C-14 in the waste from BWRs and PWRs; the production rate of C-14 in BWRs and PWRs and quantification of the source term in the IEX waste; the distribution of...
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