SCIENTIFIC JUSTIFICATION OF THE METHODICAL APPROACHES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT AND CONDUCTION OF THE CONCLUSIVE RADIATION SURVEY OF THE AREAS REMEDIATED AFTER CONTAMINATION WITH NATURAL RADIONUCLIDES

Abstract

According to the Federal target program “Provision of the nuclear and radiation safety in 2016-2020 and up to 2030”, activities on the liquidation of the nuclear legacy are performed in the Russian Federation. The nuclear legacy includes mines, pits, industrial facilities, burrows and tailings of the uranium processing facilities (objects of uranium legacy), objects of extraction and processing of precious and rare elements and mineral ore, producing the wastes with the increased concentration of natural radionuclides. Due to the damage or lack of the barriers, preventing the distribution of radionuclides, natural radionuclides contaminate the environment and expose the population residing in closely located communities. Radionuclides of radium ( 226Ra and 228Ra), radon (222Rn) and their daughter have the main contribution to the doses and corresponding radiation risks to the public residing in a vicinity of such facilities. According to the Russian legislative documents, exposure of the public residing in the area of location of the objects of the uranium legacy and objects and territories, contaminated by the natural radionuclides due to the past activities of the non-nuclear facilities is attributed to the natural exposure with the subsequent compliance to the requirements of NRB 99/2009 and OSPORB 99/2010 on limitations of natural exposure. The main direction of the use of the objects and territories contaminated by the natural radionuclides due to the past activities of nuclear and non-nuclear facilities is their unlimited use for the industrial purposes. The main criteria for the unlimited use of remediated areas and territories of buildings and constructions are the requirements of NRB-99/2009 and OSPORB-99/2010 for the construction of the residential and public buildings. The criteria of NRB-99/2009 and OSPORB 99/2010 for the industrial buildings would be applied for the use of the remediated areas and territories of buildings and constructions with the residual contamination by the natural radionuclides.

Keywords

• deactivation
• precious and rare metal mining
• mineral ore mining
• tailings
• natural radionuclides
• radiation control
• remediation
• technogenic radionuclides
• uranium legacy
• tailing dam
• nuclear legacy