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.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1981
• Subjects: Uranium Isotopes; Ecological Concentration; Sanitary Landfills; Lead 210; Radioactive Wastes; Beta Decay Radioisotopes; Wastes; Radiation Monitoring; Waste Disposal; Gamma Radiation; Water; Contamination; Electromagnetic Radiation; Massachusetts; Radiations; Ecosystems; Beta-Minus Decay Radioisotopes; Radioisotopes; Data; Thorium Isotopes; Surface Waters; Isotopes; Even-Odd Nuclei; Ground Water; Oxygen Compounds; North Atlantic Region; Materials; Even-Even Nuclei; Isomeric Transition Isotopes; Nuclei; Alpha Decay Radioisotopes; Years Living Radioisotopes 510302* > Environment; Terrestrial > Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport > Terrestrial Ecosystems & Food Chains > (-1987); Minutes Living Radioisotopes; Alkaline Earth Isotopes; Aquatic Ecosystems; Usa; Lead Isotopes; Terrestrial Ecosystems; Ground Disposal; Ionizing Radiations; Waste Management; Soils; Actinide Isotopes; Data Compilation; Numerical Data; Monitoring; Radioactive Waste Disposal; Management; Radioactive Materials; Radium 226; Information; Swamps; Radioecological Concentration; Thorium 230; Hydrogen Compounds; Wetlands; North America; Uranium 238; 54 Environmental Sciences; Uranium 235; Radium Isotopes; Actinide Nuclei; Heavy Nuclei; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/5802644; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1097482/

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.