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Languages : en
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EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF 40 CFR 197: ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION STANDARDS FOR YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA... U.S. ENVIRONMENT.
Author: Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Final 40 Cfr 197
Author: U. S. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289201890
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.
Public Health and Environmental Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada (40 CFR Part 197)-final Rule
Author: Geologic Repository for Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain
Author: Yucca Mountain Project
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain Neveda
Author: United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781724407023
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Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain Neveda: Background Information Documant for 40 CFR 197
Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309176336
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The United States currently has no place to dispose of the high-level radioactive waste resulting from the production of the nuclear weapons and the operation of nuclear electronic power plants. The only option under formal consideration at this time is to place the waste in an underground geologic repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. However, there is strong public debate about whether such a repository could protect humans from the radioactive waste that will be dangerous for many thousands of years. This book shows the extent to which our scientific knowledge can guide the federal government in developing a standard to protect the health of the public from wastes in such a repository at Yucca Mountain. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is required to use the recommendations presented in this book as it develops its standard.
Environmental Assessment Overview
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Category : Environmental impact analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Environmental Radiation Protection Requirements for Normal Operations of Activities in the Uranium Fuel Cycle
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Radiation ProgramsPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear fuels
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Calculations Supporting Evaluation of Potential Environmental Standards for Yucca Mountain
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Pages : 210
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The Energy Policy Act of 1992, Section 801 (US Congress, 1992) provides for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to contract the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to conduct a study and provide findings and recommendations on reasonable standards for the disposal of high-level wastes at the Yucca Mountain site. The NAS study is to provide findings and recommendations which include, among other things, whether a health-based standard based on dose to individual members of the public from releases to the accessible environment will provide a reasonable standard for the protection of the health and safety of the public. The EPA, based upon and consistent with the findings and recommendations of the NAS, is required to promulgate standards for protection of the public from releases from radioactive materials stored or disposed of in a repository at the Yucca Mountain site. This document presents a number of different ''simple'' analyses of undisturbed repository performance that are intended to provide input to those responsible for setting appropriate environmental standards for a potential repository at the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada. Each of the processes included in the analyses has been simplified to capture the primary significance of that process in containing or isolating the waste from the biosphere. In these simplified analyses, the complex waste package interactions were approximated by a simple waste package ''failure'' distribution which is defined by the initiation and rate of waste package ''failures''. Similarly, releases from the waste package and the engineered barrier system are controlled by the very near field environment and the presence and rate of advective and diffusive release processes. Release was approximated by either a simple alteration-controlled release for the high solubility radionuclides and either a diffusive or advective-controlled release for the solubility-limited radionuclides.