Development of an Environmental Response Handbook for BNFL Sites.

[摘要] The BNFL Group of Companies owns and operates a number of nuclear licensed sites in the UK, Europe, and US. These cover fuel manufacture and reactor services; power reactors; spent fuel management; and nuclear decommissioning and clean up. To implement its environmental policy, BNFL needs to have tools and techniques that allow it to: a) Respond appropriately to Environmental Trigger Events (ETEs), and to b) Provide assurance that BNFL is able to manage contaminated land in the short to medium term (prior to site closure). As a consequence, over the past five years, BNFL has developed the Environmental Response Handbook (ERH). ETEs on a nuclear licensed site cover a number of scenarios: Proactive action to remediate known contamination; Change in behavior or location of known contamination (e.g. mobility increase); Revision of permitted environmental limits on contaminants; Other changes in regulatory regime; Precedent set by a third party; and Discovery of previously unknown contamination or new contaminating event. The main themes of the ERH are: Global considerations for remediation on an operational site; Detailed consideration of the application of remediation to the current ETE(s); A maintained 'toolkit' of favored remediation techniques; and Case studies and action plans In this paper the process undertaken to develop the ERH is discussed. Details of the structure and application of the ERH are also presented.

[发布机构] Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

[学科分类] 工程和技术（综合）

[关键词] Handbooks;Environmental policy;Implementation;Management;Guidelines