Uranium Ore Residues: Potential Hazards and Disposition : Hearings Before the Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, June 24 and 25, 1981U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 545 páginas |
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activities Agency analysis Answer Atomic Energy average Chairman cleanup Committee contaminated cost criteria deaths decay products decommissioning decontamination Department of Energy developed dose emissions environment environmental EPA standards EPA's Evans factor Falls Storage FUSRAP gamma GEIS Grand Junction hazards health effects impact inactive sites inactive uranium industry ionizing radiation Kerr-McGee Lake Ontario lifetime risk located LOOW lung cancer meter miles Mill Tailings Act million millirem mining National Niagara Falls NRC regulations NRC's nuclear Nuclear Regulatory Commission operations percent picocuries population potential proposed standards Question radiation exposure radiation protection radioactive materials radiological radionuclides radium radon concentrations radon daughters radon flux radon released RAMSEY Reactor regulatory remedial action program requirements residues response result risk estimates Salt Lake City SHWILLER soil stabilization statement STRATTON Subcommittee surplus facilities tailings pile testimony tion uranium mill tailings waste
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