Hygienic assessment of the radioactive soil sorting technique

When decontaminating sites of radioactive contamination of urban and industrial territories, along with organizational and technical issues related to deep exploration of the focus, the choice of storage sites for low-level radiation neopaque material (MARANOM) and the disposal of soil falling under the category of radioactive waste (RW), it is necessary to produce sorting of the recovered material. The urgency of the issue is primarily due to the fact that the volumes of soil to be buried are very significant. According to KazTISIZ specialists, in Kazan alone, these volumes are 5 thousand cubic meters. m. The cost of disposal of one cubic meter. m. RAW as of 01.03.1993 - 50 thousand rubles. The main sources of pollution are radium-containing materials used in the post-war period at some enterprises of the republic (in Kazan, Chistopol), as well as radium-containing ore at the L. Ya. Karpov chemical plant in Mendeleevsk.