Radiological survey of the Shpack Landfill, Norton, Massachusetts

• Main Authors: Cottrell, W.D., Haywood, F.F., Witt, D.A., Myrick, T.E., Goldsmith, W.A., Shinpaugh, W.H., Loy, E.T.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; SANITARY LANDFILLS; CONTAMINATION; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; DATA COMPILATION; GAMMA RADIATION; GROUND DISPOSAL; GROUND WATER; LEAD 210; MASSACHUSETTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; RADIUM 226; SOILS; SURFACE WATERS; SWAMPS; THORIUM 230; URANIUM 235; URANIUM 238; ACTINIDE ISOTOPES; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; DATA; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HEAVY NUCLEI; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INFORMATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LEAD ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; MONITORING; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC REGION; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIATIONS; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5802644; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5802644; https://doi.org/10.2172/5802644

The results of a radiological survey of the Shpack Landfill, Norton, Massachusetts, are given in this report. The survey was conducted over approximately eight acres which had received radioactive wastes from 1946 to 1965. The survey included measurement of the following: external gamma radiation at the surface and at 1 m (3 ft) above the surface throughout the site; beta-gamma exposure rates at 1 cm (0.4 in.) from the surface throughout the site; concentrations of /sup 226/Ra, /sup 238/U, and /sup 235/U in surface and subsurface soil on the site; and concentrations of /sup 226/Ra, /sup 238/U, /sup 235/U, /sup 230/Th, and /sup 210/Pb in groundwater on the site and in surface water on and near the site. Results indicate that the radioactive contamination is confined to the site and to the swamp immediately adjacent to the site.