The influence of Savannah River discharge and changing SRS cooling water requirements on the potential entrainment of ichthyoplankton at the SRS Savannah River intakes Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title The influence of Savannah River discharge and changing SRS cooling water requirements on the potential entrainment of ichthyoplankton at the SRS Savannah River intakes

Creator

  • Author: Paller, M.H.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

Publisher

  • Name: Westinghouse Savannah River Company
    Place of Publication: Aiken, South Carolina
    Additional Info: Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 1992-08-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Entrainment (i.e., withdrawal of fish larvae and eggs in cooling water) at the SRS Savannah River intakes is greatest when periods of high river water usage coincide with low river dischargeduring the spawning season. American shad and striped bass are the two species of greatest concern because of their recreational and/or commercial importance and because they produce drifting eggs and larvae vulnerable to entrainment. In the mid-reaches of the Savannah River, American shad and striped bass spawn primarily during April and May. An analysis of Savannah River discharge during April and May 1973--1989 indicated the potential for entrainment of 4--18% of the American shad and striped bass larvae and eggs that drifted past the SRS. This analysis assumed the concurrent operation of L-, K-, and P-Reactors. Additional scenarios investigated were: (1) shutting down L- and P-Reactors, and operating K-Reactor with a recycle cooling tower; and (2) shutting down L- and P-Reactors, eliminating minimum flows to Steel Creek, and operating K-Reactor with a recycle cooling tower. The former scenario reduced potential entrainment to 0.7--3.3%, and the latter scenario reduced potential entrainment to 0.20.8%. Thus, the currently favored scenario of operating K-Reactor with a cooling tower and not operating L- and P-Reactors represents a significant lessening of the impact of SRS operations.
  • Physical Description: 17 pages

Subject

  • Keyword: Aquatic Organisms
  • Keyword: Us Aec
  • STI Subject Categories: 63 Radiation, Thermal, And Other Environ. Pollutant Effects On Living Orgs. And Biol. Mat.
  • Keyword: Cooling Towers
  • STI Subject Categories: 220600 -- Nuclear Reactor Technology-- Research, Test & Experimental Reactors
  • Keyword: Reactor Cooling Systems
  • STI Subject Categories: 22 General Studies Of Nuclear Reactors
  • STI Subject Categories: 54 Environmental Sciences
  • Keyword: P Reactor
  • Keyword: Fishes
  • STI Subject Categories: 540350 -- Environment, Aquatic-- Site Resource & Use Studies-- (1990-)
  • STI Subject Categories: 21 Specific Nuclear Reactors And Associated Plants
  • Keyword: Water 220502* -- Nuclear Reactor Technology-- Environmental Aspects-- Radioactive Effluents
  • Keyword: Us Doe
  • Keyword: Animals
  • Keyword: Entrainment
  • Keyword: Plankton
  • Keyword: Cooling Systems
  • Keyword: Us Organizations
  • Keyword: Production Reactors
  • Keyword: Reactors
  • Keyword: Feedwater
  • Keyword: L Reactor
  • Keyword: Vertebrates
  • Keyword: Ichthyoplankton
  • Keyword: Savannah River Plant
  • Keyword: Oxygen Compounds
  • Keyword: National Organizations
  • Keyword: Special Production Reactors
  • Keyword: Reactor Components
  • Keyword: Environmental Impacts
  • Keyword: Us Erda
  • Keyword: Hydrogen Compounds
  • Keyword: Heavy Water Moderated Reactors
  • Keyword: K Reactor
  • STI Subject Categories: 560400 -- Other Environmental Pollutant Effects

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Other: DE93006347
  • Report No.: WSRC-RP-92-1001
  • Grant Number: AC09-89SR18035
  • DOI: 10.2172/6723881
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 6723881
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1194827

Note

  • Display Note: OSTI; NTIS; INIS; GPO Dep.
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