Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant environmental monitoring report for calendar year 1976

At the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant the ambient atmosphere and all effluent streams are sampled and analyzed regularly for conformance to applicable environmental standards. Although neither the State of Ohio nor the federal government has established standards for fluorides in the ambient atmosphere or in vegetation, fluorides also are monitored because they are used extensively in the gaseous diffusion process. Radioactivity is measured in air, water, food, soil, and sediments; and radiation doses are calculated for the public. All public radiation doses are well within federal standards. Non-radioactive effluents either presently comply with federal standards or will comply upon completion of planned projects. A facility designed to remove chromium from recirculating cooling water blowdown was put on-stream for full-scale process testing in December, 1976. Also, pH-adjustment facilities for liquid effluents and electrostatic precipitators for the coal-fired steam plant are planned for fiscal years 1977 and 1978, respectively