10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRANSURANIC»
Discover the use of
transuranic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
transuranic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Improving the Characterization Program for Contact-Handled ...
As operational experience is gained in the disposal of transuranic waste from nuclear weapons facilities at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, the Department of Energy (DOE) has opportunities to change how it _characterizes_ ...
Committee on Optimizing the Characterization and Transportation of Transuranic Waste Destined for the Waste Isolation Plant, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, Division on Earth and Life Studies, 2004
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Characterization of Remote-Handled
Transuranic Waste for the ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) disposes of plutonium-contaminated debris from its 27 nuclear weapons facilities at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), an underground repository in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Committee on the Characterization of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, 2002
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Risk and Decisions About Disposition of
Transuranic and ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) manages dozens of sites across the nation that focus on research, design, and production of nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors for defense applications.
Board on Radioactive Waste Management, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council, 2005
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Research Opportunities for Managing the Department of ...
About 155,000 cubic meters of waste contaminated with both radioactive isotopes and hazardous chemicals are stored at some 30 DOE sites, and another 450,000 cubic meters are buried.
Committee on Long-Term Research Needs for Managing Transuranic and Mixed Wastes at Department of Energy Sites, National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, 2002
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Study of the Association Between Exposure to
Transuranic ...
Naz Afarin Fallahian. ABSTRACT An exploratory epidemiological study has been
conducted on 319 deceased nuclear workers, who had recorded intakes and
histories of employment for at least one year during the time period from 1943 to
...
Naz Afarin Fallahian, 2008
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Long-lived legacy : managing high-level and
transuranic ...
THE. REGULATORY. FRAMEWORK. Introduction The regulatory framework for
TRU waste is a complicated one. There are some similarities between regulation
of TRU and high-level waste and some differences. TRU waste, as a distinct ...
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Nuclear Waste: Plans for Addressing Most Buried
Transuranic ...
DOE Is Still Developing Cleanup Plans at the Three Locations Where Most
Transuranic Wastes Are Buried, but Some Waste Removal Is Already Under Way
Hanford Site Idaho National Laboratory DOE is still evaluating cleanup options
for ...
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Long-Lived Legacy: Managing High-Level and
Transuranic Waste ...
Overview It has been only 50 years since elements heavier than uranium-hence,
the term Transuranic-were created. These elements do not occur in nature and
were first produced in nuclear reactors as part of the World War II effort by the ...
United States, Office of Technology Assessment, Congress
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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: A Potential Solution for ...
This volume discusses the readiness of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico, to serve as a geological repository for transuranic radioactive waste.
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Analytical methods for safeguards and accountability ...
In Situ Quantitative Determination of Transuranic Elements in Areas of High-
Level Gamma Radiation* by R. L. Brodzinski and N. A. Wogman Battelle, Pacific
Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington ABSTRACT A technique is
described ...
H. Thomas Yolken, John E. Bullard, American Nuclear Society. Nuclear Fuel Cycle Division, 1978
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRANSURANIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
transuranic is used in the context of the following news items.
Recycling nuclear waste: UM helps test advanced reactor design
Hitachi's new design would burn off the longest-lived radioactive materials, called transuranics, shortening that isolation period to a few centuries. This would ... «U of M News Service, May 15»
DOE awards contract for legacy waste plant design
Merrick & Company is to design equipment for handling and treating transuranic materials for a sludge treatment facility at the US Department of Energy's Oak ... «World Nuclear News, May 15»
Settlement with DOE good for NM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A little more than a year ago, a drum of transuranic waste packed with incompatible materials ruptured after being transported 300 ... «Albuquerque Journal, May 15»
Plans announced for New Mexico used fuel store
Located in a 655-metre-deep geologic salt formation, WIPP is the final resting place for transuranic waste - material contaminated with man-made radioisotopes ... «World Nuclear News, Apr 15»
DOE awards contract for sludge buildout project
The Transuranic Waste Processing Center in west Oak Ridge, south of Bethel Valley Road on Highway 95, is pictured above. (Photo courtesy of U.S. ... «Oak Ridge Today, Apr 15»
LANL cleanup to cost $1.6B, take until 2022
SANTA FE – A government watchdog says work to clean up “transuranic” radioactive waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory – the kind that is supposed to be ... «Albuquerque Journal, Mar 15»
DOE works with transuranic waste while NM facility shut down
The TRU Waste Processing Center southwest of Oak Ridge National Laboratory off State Route 95 is pictured above. (Photo courtesy TWPC/WAI). «Oak Ridge Today, Dec 14»
Idaho nuclear waste shipments in limbo
One of the largest ripple effects of the WIPP shutdown is being felt at Idaho National Laboratory's desert site, where steel drums filled with transuranic waste are ... «The Idaho Statesman, Dec 14»
New Mexico nuclear waste accident a 'horrific comedy of errors' that …
Immediate action is necessary to ensure that these matters are addressed and fully resolved before TRU [transuranic] waste operations are resumed, or, for that ... «The Ecologist, Nov 14»
Los Alamos lab's safety lapses faulted for radioactive leak
The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) generates large volumes of transuranic waste – mostly contaminated items like ... «Chemistry World, Oct 14»
