Licensing Uranium Enrichment Plants: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session ... Hearing Held in Washington, DC, March 6, 1990 |
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Page 106 - Radiation -- (1) The emission and propagation of energy through space or through a material medium in the form of waves; for instance, the emission and propagation of electromagnetic waves, or of sound and elastic waves. (2) The energy propagated through space or through a material medium as waves; for example, energy in the form of electromagnetic waves or of elastic waves. The term radiation or radiant energy, when unqualified, usually refers to electro -magnetic radiation.
Page 106 - A special unit of dose equivalent. The dose equivalent in rems is numerically equal to the absorbed dose in rads multiplied by the quality factor, the distribution factor, and any other necessary modifying factors.
Page 106 - Background Radiation -- Radiation arising from radioactive material other than the one directly under consideration. Background radiation due to cosmic rays and natural radioactivity is always present. There may also be background radiation due to the presence of radioactive substances in other parts of the building, in the building material itself, etc.
Page 104 - Gaseous diffusion- -A method of isotopic separation based on the fact that gas atoms or molecules with different masses will diffuse through a porous barrier (or membrane) at different rates. The method is used to separate uranium-235 from uranium-238: It requires large gaseous diffusion plants and enormous amounts of electric power.
Page 105 - Nuclide: A species of atom characterized by the constitution of its nucleus. The nuclear constitution is specified by the number of protons (Z), number of neutrons (N), and energy content; or, alternatively, by the atomic number (Z), mass number A (= N + Z), and atomic mass.
Page 76 - The annual dose equivalent does not exceed 25 millirems to the whole body, 75 millirems to the thyroid, and 25 millirems to any other organ of any member of the public as the result of exposures to planned discharges of radioactive materials, radon and its daughters excepted, to the general environment from uranium fuel cycle operations and to radiation from these operations.
Page 105 - Half-life, Radioactive: Time required for a radioactive substance to lose 50 percent of its activity by decay. Each radionuclide has a unique half-life.
Page 74 - This Guide applies when the individual whole body doses are known. As an operational technique, where the individual whole body doses are not known, a suitable sample of the exposed population should be developed ' whose protection guide for annual whole body dose will be 0.
Page 106 - The term radiation or radiant energy, when unqualified, usually refers to electromagnetic radiation. Such radiation commonly is classified, according to frequency, as Hertzian, infrared, visible (light), ultra-violet, x ray, and gamma ray.
Page 112 - ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT...