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Title: User's manual for RESRAD version 6.

Abstract

This manual provides information on the design and application of the RESidual RADioactivity (RESRAD) code. It describes the basic models and parameters used in the RESRAD code to calculate doses and risks from residual radioactive materials and the procedures for applying these models to calculate operational guidelines for soil contamination. RESRAD has undergone many improvements to make it more realistic in terms of the models used in the code and the parameters used as defaults. Version 6 contains a total of 145 radionuclides (92 principal and 53 associated radionuclides), and the cutoff half-life for associated radionuclides has been reduced to 1 month. Other major improvements to the RESRAD code include its ability to run uncertainty analyses, additional options for graphical and text output, a better dose conversion factor editor, updated databases, a better groundwater transport model for long decay chains, an external ground radiation pathway model, an inhalation area factor model, time-integration of dose and risk, and a better graphical user interface. In addition, RESRAD has been benchmarked against other codes in the environmental assessment and site cleanup arena, and RESRAD models have been verified and validated.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
Sponsoring Org.:
US Department of Energy (US)
OSTI Identifier:
785378
Report Number(s):
ANL/EAD-4
TRN: AH200131%%385
DOE Contract Number:  
W-31-109-ENG-38
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 23 Jul 2001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; CHAINS; CONTAMINATION; DECAY; DESIGN; HALF-LIFE; INHALATION; RADIATIONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; RECOMMENDATIONS; SOILS; TRANSPORT

Citation Formats

Yu, C, Zielen, A J, Cheng, J -J, LePoire, D J, Gnanapragasam, E, Kamboj, S.Arnish, J., Wallo, A III, Williams, W A, and Peterson, H. User's manual for RESRAD version 6.. United States: N. p., 2001. Web. doi:10.2172/785378.
Yu, C, Zielen, A J, Cheng, J -J, LePoire, D J, Gnanapragasam, E, Kamboj, S.Arnish, J., Wallo, A III, Williams, W A, & Peterson, H. User's manual for RESRAD version 6.. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/785378
Yu, C, Zielen, A J, Cheng, J -J, LePoire, D J, Gnanapragasam, E, Kamboj, S.Arnish, J., Wallo, A III, Williams, W A, and Peterson, H. 2001. "User's manual for RESRAD version 6.". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/785378. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/785378.
@article{osti_785378,
title = {User's manual for RESRAD version 6.},
author = {Yu, C and Zielen, A J and Cheng, J -J and LePoire, D J and Gnanapragasam, E and Kamboj, S.Arnish, J. and Wallo, A III and Williams, W A and Peterson, H},
abstractNote = {This manual provides information on the design and application of the RESidual RADioactivity (RESRAD) code. It describes the basic models and parameters used in the RESRAD code to calculate doses and risks from residual radioactive materials and the procedures for applying these models to calculate operational guidelines for soil contamination. RESRAD has undergone many improvements to make it more realistic in terms of the models used in the code and the parameters used as defaults. Version 6 contains a total of 145 radionuclides (92 principal and 53 associated radionuclides), and the cutoff half-life for associated radionuclides has been reduced to 1 month. Other major improvements to the RESRAD code include its ability to run uncertainty analyses, additional options for graphical and text output, a better dose conversion factor editor, updated databases, a better groundwater transport model for long decay chains, an external ground radiation pathway model, an inhalation area factor model, time-integration of dose and risk, and a better graphical user interface. In addition, RESRAD has been benchmarked against other codes in the environmental assessment and site cleanup arena, and RESRAD models have been verified and validated.},
doi = {10.2172/785378},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/785378}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2001},
month = {Mon Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2001}
}