Published February 1984 | Version v1
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Storms disperse waste

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Description

A tracer technique was used to investigate the movement of chemical waste that is dumped in Bass Strait from a paint pigment factory in northern Tasmania. A gold-198 labelled ferric hydroxide floc was mixed with the waste. It was found that during relatively calm weather the waste accumulates on the sea bed near the outfall, but that during storms the accumulated waste can be transported shorewards by wind driven sea currents

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Journal Title
AAEC Nucl. News
Journal Issue
no. 17
Series
AAEC Nucl. News.
ISSN
0157-6224

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Country of Publication
Australia
Country of Input or Organization
Australia
INIS RN
15061232
Subject category
S58: GEOSCIENCES;
Descriptors DEI
DISTRIBUTION; GOLD 198; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; IRON HYDROXIDES; SEAS; TASMANIA; TRACER TECHNIQUES; WEATHER
Descriptors DEC
AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; GOLD ISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROXIDES; IRON COMPOUNDS; ISLANDS; ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS; ISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; SURFACE WATERS; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS; WASTES