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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142234956X
Total Pages : 219 pages
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Download or read book Complex Cleanup: The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428921486
Total Pages : 219 pages
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Download or read book Complex cleanup : the environmental legacy of nuclear weapons production. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Complex Cleanup written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Complex Cleanup written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine N. Probst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135893063
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Long-Term Stewardship and the Nuclear Weapons Complex written by Katherine N. Probst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of U.S. nuclear weapons production have exacted a heavy environmental toll. The Department of Energy estimates that cleaning up waste and contamination resulting from production activities will cost over $150 billion. Yet even once that money is spent, these sites will need long-term attention to assure protection of human health and the environment. In the authors' words, stewardship refers to 'institutions, information, and strategies needed to ensure protection of people and the environment, both in the short and the long term.' Probst and McGovern make a compelling case for establishing a formal program of long-term stewardship for contaminated sites. Their report details the requirements of a successful stewardship program and discusses the daunting technical and political challenges facing such efforts, including the designation of an institutional home for key stewardship functions. The legacy of environmental damage is considerable; hazardous waste disposal, radioactive waste, and contaminated facilities are among the problems that will remain after DOE cleanup efforts are complete. Stewardship planning, according to Probst and McGovern, must start now.
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Total Pages : 102 pages
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Download or read book Cleaning Up the Department of Energy's Nuclear Weapons Complex written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Department of Energy's Nuclear Weapons Complex Cleanup Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Committee on the Review of the Hanford Site's Environmental Remediation Science and Technology Plan
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 9780309387903
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Science and Technology for Environmental Cleanup at Hanford written by Committee on the Review of the Hanford Site's Environmental Remediation Science and Technology Plan and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-10-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hanford Site was established by the federal government in 1943 as part of the secret wartime effort to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. The site operated for about four decades and produced roughly two thirds of the 100 metric tons of plutonium in the U.S. inventory. Millions of cubic meters of radioactive and chemically hazardous wastes, the by-product of plutonium production, were stored in tanks and ancillary facilities at the site or disposed or discharged to the subsurface, the atmosphere, or the Columbia River. In the late 1980s, the primary mission of the Hanford Site changed from plutonium production to environmental restoration. The federal government, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), began to invest human and financial resources to stabilize and, where possible, remediate the legacy of environmental contamination created by the defense mission. During the past few years, this financial investment has exceeded $1 billion annually. DOE, which is responsible for cleanup of the entire weapons complex, estimates that the cleanup program at Hanford will last until at least 2046 and will cost U.S. taxpayers on the order of $85 billion. Science and Technology for Environmental Cleanup at Hanford provides background information on the Hanford Site and its Integration Project,discusses the System Assessment Capability, an Integration Project-developed risk assessment tool to estimate quantitative effects of contaminant releases, and reviews the technical elements of the scierovides programmatic-level recommendations.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309041791
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Nuclear Weapons Complex written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the National Research Council examines problems arising throughout government-owned, contractor-operated facilities in the United States engaged in activities to build nuclear weapons. The book draws conclusions about and makes recommendations for the health and safety of the nuclear weapons complex and addresses pressing environmental concerns. In addition, the book examines the future of the complex and offers suggestions for its modernization. Several explanatory appendixes provide useful background information on the functioning of the complex, criticality safety, plutonium chemistry, and weapons physics.
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Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
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Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book Safety, Modernization, and Environmental Cleanup of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
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Total Pages : 496 pages
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Download or read book Oversight of cleanup and modernization proposals for DOE's weapons production complex written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Noyes
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0815518455
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Waste Cleanup Technologies and Opportunities written by Robert Noyes and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest, most complicated and expensive environmental problems in the United States is the cleanup of nuclear wastes. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has approximately 4,000 contaminated sites covering tens of thousands of acres and replete with contaminated hazardous or radioactive waste, soil, or structures. In addition to high-level waste, it has more than 250,000 cubic meters of transuranic waste and millions of cubic meters of low-level radio-active waste. In addition, DOE is responsible for thousands of facilities awaiting decontamination, decommissioning, and dismantling. DOE and its predecessors have been involved in the management of radioactive wastes since 1943, when such wastes were first generated in significant quantities as by-products of nuclear weapons production. Waste connected with DOE's nuclear weapons complex has been accumulating as a result of various operations spanning over five decades. The cost estimates for nuclear waste cleanup in the United States have been rapidly rising. It has recently been estimated to be in a range from $200 to $350 billion. Costs could vary considerably based on future philosophies as to whether to isolate certain sites (the ""iron fence"" philosophy), or clean them up to a pristine condition (the ""greenfields"" philosophy). Funding will also be based on Congressional action that may reduce environmental cleanup, based on budget considerations.
Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788116360
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes environmental, safety, and health problems throughout the nuclear weapons complex and what the U.S. Dept. of Energy is doing to address them. Covers: building nuclear warheads: the process; wastes and other byproducts of the cold war (spent nuclear fuel, plutonium residues, radioactive waste, transuranic waste, hazardous waste, etc.); contamination and cleanup; an international perspective; transition to new missions; and looking to the future. Over 100 b/w photos. Extensive glossary and bibliography.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309184312
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An End State Methodology for Identifying Technology Needs for Environmental Management, with an Example from the Hanford Site Tanks written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-03-16 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major issue in the cleanup of this country's nuclear weapons complex is how to dispose of the radioactive waste resulting primarily from the chemical processing operations for the recovery of plutonium and other defense strategic nuclear materials. The wastes are stored in hundreds of large underground tanks at four U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites throughout the United States. The tanks contain hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of radioactive and hazardous waste. Most of it is high-level waste (HLW), some of it is transuranic (TRU) or low- level waste (LLW), and essentially all containing significant amounts of chemicals deemed hazardous. Of the 278 tanks involved, about 70 are known or assumed to have leaked some of their contents to the environment. The remediation of the tanks and their contents requires the development of new technologies to enable cleanup and minimize costs while meeting various health, safety, and environmental objectives. While DOE has a process based on stakeholder participation for screening and formulating technology needs, it lacks transparency (in terms of being apparent to all concerned decision makers and other interested parties) and a systematic basis (in terms of identifying end states for the contaminants and developing pathways to these states from the present conditions). An End State Methodology for Identifying Technology Needs for Environmental Management, with an Example from the Hanford Site Tanks describes an approach for identifying technology development needs that is both systematic and transparent to enhance the cleanup and remediation of the tank contents and their sites. The authoring committee believes that the recommended end state based approach can be applied to DOE waste management in general, not just to waste in tanks. The approach is illustrated through an example based on the tanks at the DOE Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state, the location of some 60 percent by volume of the tank waste residues.
Author : Robert Noyes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0080946194
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Waste Cleanup Technologies and Opportunities written by Robert Noyes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest, most complicated and expensive environmental problems in the United States is the cleanup of nuclear wastes. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has approximately 4,000 contaminated sites covering tens of thousands of acres and replete with contaminated hazardous or radioactive waste, soil, or structures. In addition to high-level waste, it has more than 250,000 cubic meters of transuranic waste and millions of cubic meters of low-level radio-active waste. In addition, DOE is responsible for thousands of facilities awaiting decontamination, decommissioning, and dismantling. DOE and its predecessors have been involved in the management of radioactive wastes since 1943, when such wastes were first generated in significant quantities as by-products of nuclear weapons production. Waste connected with DOE's nuclear weapons complex has been accumulating as a result of various operations spanning over five decades. The cost estimates for nuclear waste cleanup in the United States have been rapidly rising. It has recently been estimated to be in a range from $200 to $350 billion. Costs could vary considerably based on future philosophies as to whether to isolate certain sites (the ""iron fence"" philosophy), or clean them up to a pristine condition (the ""greenfields"" philosophy). Funding will also be based on Congressional action that may reduce environmental cleanup, based on budget considerations.
