Radioactive waste: The size of the problem

Physics Today

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 24-29

  Ahearne, John F ^a,b  

^a Sigma Xi Center   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL ASH; ORE TAILINGS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIUM; RADON; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

ANTHROPOGENIC MATERIALS; HIGH LEVEL WASTE; LOW LEVEL WASTE; MILL TAILINGS; TRANSURANIC WASTE;

RADIOACTIVE WASTES;

CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; RADIONUCLIDE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

USA;

EID: 0031156326     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.881763     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Department of Energy, Integrated Data Base Report 1995: US Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste Inventories, Projections and Characteristics, DOE/RW-0006, Revision 12, (1996).
2. Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in Geologic Repositories, Code of Federal Regulations 60, section 60.2.
3. Department of Energy, Draft Waste Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) For Managing Treatment, Storage, and Disposal of Radioactive and Hazardous Waste, DOE/EIS-0200-D (1995).
4. Department of Energy, Integrated Data Base Report 1994: US Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste Inventories, Projections and Characteristics, DOE/RW-0006, Revision 11, (1995).
5. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom (1995).
6. See, for example, Pierre Saverot, J. Nucl. Mater. Management, April 1994, p. 18.
7. Code of Federal Regulations 10, section 61.55.
8. General Accounting Office, Radioactive Waste: Status of Commercial Low-Level Waste Facilities, GAO/RCED-95-67 (1995), p. 12.
9. Code of Federal Regulations, section 61.4(b)(4) and (5).