Introduction, Current Issues in Decommissioning and MARSSIM Overview; Decommissioning Project Overview and Regulatory Agency Interface; Characterization and the Data Quality Objectives Process; Guidelines and Dose-Based Release Criteria; Exposure Pathway Modeling to Determine DCGLs; Preliminary Survey Design Concerns and Application of DCGLs ; Background Determination and Background Reference Areas ; Survey Instrumentation Selection and Calibration; Detection Sensitivity-Static and Scan MDCs; Survey Procedures and Data Interpretation; Statistics and Hypothesis Testing; MARSSIM Final Status Survey Design and Strategies ; MARSSIM Data Reduction; Decommissioning Survey Applications at Various Facilities; Final Status Survey Reports; Practical Applications of Statistics to Support; Decommissioning Activities; International Decommissioning Perspectives; Appendices; References; Bibliography; Index;Top Synopsis Decommissioning Health Physics presents many of the technical issues and challenges that arise during the planning and implementation of decommissioning and decontamination (D&D) projects. The focus is on the final status survey performed during the later stages of decommissioning projects, and is written to expand upon and provide greater technical detail than MARSSIM (Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual) in areas of survey design strategies.

The book will be essential for those responsible for the planning and designing final status surveys, and reporting the final status survey results; while health physics technicians will benefit from practical chapters on instrumentation and survey procedures.

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