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Improving the Characterization Program for Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Bound for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (2004) / Chapter Skim
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E Health and Safety Issues in Waste Characterization
Pages 110-115

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... The increased worker exposures are due to handling and processing containers with significantly higher surface dose rates. Retrieving drums of approved waste from storage locations at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site required moving non-approved waste drums out of the way to allow access to the desired drum (the so-called dance of the drums, see Section 4.6~.
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From page 115...
... Surface dose rates from drums originating from the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site average approximately ~ mrem per hour (about 100 of the 19,000 drums emplaced at WIPP had surface dose rates in excess of ~ 0 mrem per hour)
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