Cost-benefit of final radiological survey versus radioactive waste disposal
Barroso, J.; Roberts, S.
Health Physics 84(2 Suppl): S13-S16
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0017-9078 PMID: 12564340 Document Number: 561406
A significant portion of the cost for D&D is related to low-level waste disposal, decontamination, and final radiological survey. For that reason, a careful cost-benefit analysis must be performed weighing the cost of decontaminating and radiologically surveying the building media for release against the cost of disposing of the material as radioactive waste. This cost-benefit analysis visibly came into play at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site during the recent D&D of two facilities.