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Table 4-67. Annual dose and excess latent cancer fatalities from incident-free offsite transport of radioactive material for alternative B - expected waste forecast.



Waste
Involved workersa
(person-rem)
Remote MEIb
(rem)
Remote populationc (person-rem)
Low-level0.575.2x10-5 0.87
Mixed0.0123.2x10-8 0.0025
Low-level volume reductiond16 8.1x10-5 6.4
Totalse17 1.3x10-4 7.3
Excess latent cancer fatalities6.6x10-3 6.5x10-8f 3.6x10-3

a. See Section 4.1.11.2 for descriptions of receptors.

b. MEI = maximally exposed individual.

c. Offsite population along the transportation route.

d. Includes only low-level waste sent offsite for size reduction, supercompaction, or incineration. This represents a change from the draft EIS.

e. Dose for the remote MEI assumes exposure to each waste (see Appendix E) in a year; for the populations, dose is the result of exposure to 1 year of incident-free transportation of waste (see Appendix E).

f. Additional probability of an excess latent cancer fatality.




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