The Canister Storage Building (CSB) is located in the 200-East Area of the Hanford Site, is a 42,000 square foot facility used to store spent nuclear fuel from activities conducted at the Hanford Site. Because the facility has the potential to emit radionuclides into the environment, its ventilation exhaust stack has ben equipped with an air monitoring system. To meet the requirements of National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Subpart H, the system's sampling probe is located in the exhaust stack in accordance with criteria established by the American National Standards Institute/Health Physics Society (ANSI/HPS) Standard N13.1-1999, Sampling and Monitoring Releases of Airborne Radioactive Substances from the Stack and Ducts of Nuclear Facilities.
Revised: October 11, 2016 |
Published: February 29, 2016