Uranium in hot water tanks: A source of tenorm

Health Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 659-663

  DeVol, T A ^b   Woodruff Jr , R L ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Groundwater; Naturally occurring radionuclides; Radioactivity, environmental; Uranium

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; GERMANIUM; GROUND WATER; HOT WATER; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; URANIUM;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EFFLUENT; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; TANK; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 14844325679     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000138584.66528.98     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Toxicological profile for uranium. Atlanta: ATSDR; PB/99/163362; 1999.
2. Brina R, Miller AG. Direct detection of trace levels of uranium by laser-induced kinetic phosphorimetry. Anal Chem 64:1413-1418; 1992.
3. Cothern CR, Lappenbusch WL. Occurrence of uranium in drinking water in the U.S. Health Phys 45:89-99; 1983.
4. Federal Register. 40 CFR Parts 9, 141, and 142; National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; Radionuclides; Final Rule 65(236):76708-76753; 7 December 2000.
5. Finch R, Murakami T. Systematics and paragenesis of uranium minerals. In: Burns PC, Finch R, eds. Uranium: mineralogy, geochemistry and the environment, reviews in mineralogy. Washington, DC: The Mineralogical Society of America; 1999: 38:91-179.
6. Hayes AC, Fresquez PR, Whicker WF. Uranium uptake study, Nambe, New Mexico: Source document. Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory; LA-13614-MS; 2000.
7. Hess CT, Michel J, Horton TR, Prichard HM, Coniglio WA. The occurrence of radioactivity in public water supplies in the United States. Health Phys 48:553-586; 1985.
8. Hughes LD, Powell BA, Soreefan AM, Falta DA, DeVol TA. Anomalously high levels of uranium and other naturally occurring radionuclides in private well supplies in the Piedmont region of South Carolina. Health Physics; 2005 (in press).
9. Hutchinson RW, Blackwell JD. Time, crustal evolution and generation of uranium deposits. In: De Vivo B, Ippolito F, Capaldi G, Simpson PR, eds. Uranium geochemistry, mineralogy, geology, exploration and resources. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1984:89-100.
10. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. Evaluation of guidelines for exposures to technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1999.
11. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. Exposure of the population in the United States and Canada from natural background radiation. Bethesda, MD: NCRP Press; NCRP Report 94; 1988.
12. Neel D. Naturally occurring radionuclides in groundwater. Lecture at Environmental Engineering & Science, Clemson: Clemson University; 2002.
13. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Evaluation of EPA's Guidelines on Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (TENORM) Report to Congress. Washington, DC: EPA 402-R-00-01; June 2000.
14. Woodruff, RL. Uranium in hot water tanks: A source of TENORM [thesis]. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson Univ; 2002 Aug 2. 66 p.