Published April 1999 | Version v1
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Storage to decay in lieu of shallow land disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW)

  • 1. Sierra Club of California, Palo Alto, CA (United States)
  • 2. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Washington, DC (United States)

Description

The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the reader with: the standards and practices of LLRW disposal in the United States; the experience with shallow land burial and the flawed hypothesis that unsaturated zones in arid environments will provide barriers to groundwater contamination; alternatives to shallow land burial using the reactor containment for assured storage; the anthropocentric approach to LLRW disposal with shallow land burial and the effects on ecological and evolutionary processes

Part of:
Proceedings of the international symposium on radioactive waste disposal: Health and environmental criteria and standards

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Stockholm Environment Inst.
Imprint Place
Stockholm (Sweden)
ISBN
91-88714-67-5
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the international symposium on radioactive waste disposal: Health and environmental criteria and standards
Imprint Pagination
318 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 213-217

Conference

Title
Health and environmental criteria and standards
Acronym
International symposium on radioactive waste disposal
Dates
31 Aug - 4 Sep 1998
Place
Stockholm (Sweden)

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Optional Information

Notes
13 refs. Imprint:Organized in cooperation with United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Swedish Radiation Protection Inst. and Stockholm Environmental Inst.