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Many Roads to Travel: Alternative Approaches to Route Selection for Yucca Mountain Shipments
Dilger, F.; Halstead, R. J. - 2009
This paper examines the routing implications of the potential shipment of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste to the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The authors describe a model which can be used to evaluate the impacts of transporting spent nuclear fuel nationally...
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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values
Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008
Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436419
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Overview of commercial low-level radioactive waste disposal in the United States
Smith, P. - 2009
Disposal of commercial low-level radioactive waste (LLW) is a critical part of the national infrastructure needed to maintain the health of American businesses, universities, and hospitals. Currently only 19 States (located in the Northwest and Southeast) have access to operating disposal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436531
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Offsite commercial disposal of oil and gas exploration and production waste :availability, options, and cost.
Puder, M. G.; Veil, J. A. - 2008
&P) segment of the oil and gas industry generated more than 149 million bbl of drilling wastes, almost 18 billion bbl of produced … water, and 21 million bbl of associated wastes. The results of that survey, published in 2000, suggested that 3% of drilling … wastes, less than 0.5% of produced water, and 15% of associated wastes are sent to offsite commercial facilities for disposal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436107
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An Assessment of the Disposal of Petroleum Industry NORM in Nonhazardous Landfills
Arnish, John J.; Blunt, Deborah; Haffenden, Rebecca A.; … - 2008
In this study, the disposal of radium-bearing NORM wastes in nonhazardous landfills in accordance with the MDEQ … waste stream generated by the petroleum industry--wastes containing lead-210 (Pb-210) and its progeny. Both NORM waste …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436799
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US Department of Energy response to standards for remedial actions at inactive uranium processing sites: Proposed rule
2008
The Title I groundwater standards for inactive uranium mill tailings sites, which were promulgated on January 5, 1983, by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project, were remanded to the EPA on September 3, 1985, by the US Tenth...
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Survey of computer codes applicable to waste facility performance evaluations
Alsharif, M.; Pung, D.L.; Rivera, A.L.; Dole, L.R. - 2008
This study is an effort to review existing information that is useful to develop an integrated model for predicting the performance of a radioactive waste facility. A summary description of 162 computer codes is given. The identified computer programs address the performance of waste packages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436493
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Scenarios for /sup 14/C release to the atmosphere by the world nuclear industry and estimated radiological impacts. [Projections for the years 1975 through 2020]
Till, J.E.; Killough, G.G. - 2009
This paper presents an assessment of the radiation dose to the world population and the associated potential health effects from three scenarios of /sup 14/C releases by the nuclear industry between 1975 and 2020. Measures of health impact are derived from source terms through the use of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436806
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Finding of No Significant Impact for the Environmental Assessment for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve West Hackberry Facility Raw Water Intake Pipeline Replacement Cameron and Calc...
2008
DOE has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA), DOE/EA-1497, for the proposed replacement of the existing 107 centimeter (cm) [42 inch (in)] 6.87 kilometer (km) [4.27 mile (mi)] raw water intake pipeline (RWIPL). This action is necessary to allow for continued, optimum operations at the West...
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Class I cultural resource overview for oil shale and tar sands areas in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
O'Rourke, D.; Kullen, D.; Gierek, L.; Wescott, K.; Greby, M. - Environmental Science Division - 2008
In August 2005, the U.S. Congress enacted the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Law 109-58. In Section 369 of this Act, also known as the 'Oil Shale, Tar Sands, and Other Strategic Unconventional Fuels Act of 2005', Congress declared that oil shale and tar sands (and other unconventional fuels)...
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