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Radiation Risk to Future Generations from Long-lived Radioactive Waste

Author: Neil J. Nusbaum, JD MD

Published in: Journal of Community Health | Issue 5/2006

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An ongoing concern in the nuclear power industry has been how to handle the accumulating inventories of radioactive waste products, especially those which have extremely long half lives. Establishment of a permanent national repository for these products in Nevada has been long delayed by well known technical difficulties and political and legal controversy. In a recent development this process even has included announcement by the federal Environmental Protection Agency of revised proposed standards for radiation release, with one standard for the first ten thousand years of radioactive waste storage, and a second standard beginning from the period ten thousand years into the future and extending to a million years into the future.1 …

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Title: Radiation Risk to Future Generations from Long-lived Radioactive Waste
Author: Neil J. Nusbaum, JD MD
Publication date: 01-10-2006
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Published in: Journal of Community Health / Issue 5/2006
Print ISSN: 0094-5145
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3610
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-006-9020-x

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