Treatment of uncertainty and developing conceptual models for environmental risk assessments and radioactive waste disposal safety cases

Environment International

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-97

  El Ghonemy, Hamdi ^a   Watts, Len ^a   Fowler, Linda ^a  

^a SELLAFIELD LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual models; Contaminated land; FEPs; Low level radioactive waste; Safety assessment

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMPUTER CODES; CONCEPTUAL MODELS; LAND RISK;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

CONTAMINATED LAND; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOLOGY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAND USE; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SOIL QUALITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 10644221012     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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