Radionuclides Resources & Links

Documents
Radiation Reference Guide: Relevant Organizations and Regulatory Terms (December 1999) RAD-1
Provides information on organizations, activities, and technical terminology related to radioactive contamination.

Determining Cleanup Goals at Radioactively Contaminated Sites: Case Studies (April 2002) RAD-2
Provides a summary of regulatory standards and requirements that dictate cleanup at radioactively-contaminated sites.

Issues of Long-Term Stewardship: State Regulators' Perspectives (July 2004) RAD-3
Presents results of a state regulator survey of perspectives on long-term stewardship, including methodologies, data, and conclusions, as well as a comparison with preceding documents.

Real-Time Measurement of Radionuclides in Soil: Technology and Case Studies (February 2006) RAD-4
Provides overview of the benefits of a streamlined data collection approach that has proven effective at radionuclide contaminated sites

Links
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Training
Radiation Risk Assessment - Updates and Tools
Focuses on EPA's new radiation risk assessment tools, which can facilitate better decision making for accelerated cleanups. Specific topics include regulatory background and case studies, existing practices in radiation risk assessment, use of radiation PRG calculator, and case study application for PRG calculator.

Radiation Site Cleanup - CERCLA Requirements and Guidance
Focuses is EPA's guidance for remediating radioactively contaminated sites, which can facilitate cleanups that are consistent with the way chemical contaminants are addressed, except where technical differences posed by radiation are addressed. In addition to cleanup and its associated guidance, this course introduces the participants to long-term stewardship (LTS) challenges related to large radioactively contaminated sites.

Radiation Real-Time: Real-Time Measurement of Radionuclides in Soil
Provides information on the basics of real-time measurement systems (detector types and platforms, location control and mapping technologies, surface and subsurface applications and limitations), how the technologies and data are used (characterization, remediation and closure, decision support, sources and types of uncertainty), acceptance issues (QA/QC, decision framework, uncertainty), and case studies.