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The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM) directs the massive cleanup of more than 100 sites that were involved in the production of nuclear weapons materials during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. This report offers suggestions for more effectively characterizing and treating the orphan and special-case wastes that are part of EMs accelerated cleanup program. It identifies technical opportunities for EM to improve the program that will save time and money without compromising health and safety. The opportunities identified include: making more effective use of existing facilities and capabilities for waste characterization, treatment, or disposal; eliminating self-imposed requirements that have no clear technical or safety basis; and investing in new technologies to improve existing treatment and characterization capabilities. For example, the report suggests that EM work with DOE classification officers to declassify, to the extent possible, classified materials declared as wastes. The report also suggests a new approach for treating the wastes that EM will leave in place after cleanup. ... Read more

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The 1980 Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act ushered in a new era in low-level waste disposal; one with vastly increased state responsibilities. By a 1985 amendment, states were given until January 1993 to fulfill their mandate. English reviews their progress, focusing on one intractable problem: the difficulty of finding technically and socially acceptable sites for new disposal facilities. To comprehend--and, possibly, solve--the siting dilemma, differing values on issues concerning authority, trust, risk, and justice must be understood. ... Read more

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Many countries are currently exploring the option to dispose of highly radioactive solid wastes deep underground in purpose built, engineered repositories. A number of surface and shallow repositories for less radioactive wastes are already in operation. One of the challenges facing the nuclear industry is to demonstrate confidently that a repository will contain wastes for so long that any releases that might take place in the future will pose no significant health or environmental risk.

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The radioactive waste that was dispersed throughout the St. Louis area during the "Atomic Age" was a result of atomic weapons work carried out by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works for the U.S. government under secret contract. To date, there has been no comprehensive study of the secret contracting effort that made Mallinckrodt Chemical Works one of the most important contributors to the atomic bomb project, nor has there been an adequate discussion of the long-term consequences of this atomic program on the health and environment of the community. The purpose of this book is to provide an examination of the history and consequences of the atomic legacy of St. Louis and the Metro-East. ... Read more

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One of three books in a series on waste management, this text provides an examination of radioactive materials and waste. Topics discussed include types and management, storage and transportation, socio-political implications, emergency preparations, and current standards in radioactive materials. Professionals who work with radioactive wastes will find this book useful, as well as students looking to explore the topic in a broad scope. ... Read more

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This specialized handbook on the management of radioactive waste, includes information applicable to related applications. It consolidates information from many sources to develop techniques for dealing with radioactive waste management, featuring reports and other specialized data not available in libraries. Covers physical data, chemical data, types of radioactive wastes, and data for different operations. ... Read more

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Title: Final Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NevadaVolume: Draft-Vol 1Publisher: [Las Vegas, Nev.] : The OfficePublication date: 2002Subjects: Radioactive waste disposal in the groundRadioactive waste disposal in the groundRadioactive waste sitesRadioactive waste sitesNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Elli Louka's excellent study of the threats posed by unregulated dumping of toxic, nuclear and non-nuclear wastes makes an important contribution to our understanding of the need for action on third-generation human rights today rather than tomorrow.  Her proposals for reform offer every reason to believe that this can be done in ways that preserve both the environment and opportunities for rational development.
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