Improving the Regulation and Management of Low-Activity Radioactive Wastes Interim Report on Current Regulations, Inventories, and Practices (2003) / Chapter Skim
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4 Issues and Findings
4 Issues and Findings
Pages 39-45
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At the opposite extreme, discrete sources declared as waste are often extremely radioactive and have the potential to produce acute radiation effects and serious contamination incidents. The larger sources exceed USNRC Class C limits on near-surface disposal, and in the absence of a geological repository (e.g., Yucca Mountain if licensed and constructed)
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FUSRAP wastes provicle a good example of political and regulatory inconsistencies. The Army Corps of Engineers is currently shipping railcar Toads of FUSRAP wastes from St.
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Uranium and thorium Very long-lived parent and daughter Defense waste, pre-1978: not di ore processing wastes isotopes. Low specific alpha activity rectly regulated and little penetrating radiation.
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Finding ~ Current statutes and regulations for low-activity radioactive wastes provide adequate authority for protection of workers and the public. In its fact-finding meetings, site visits, and review of relevant literature, the committee found no instances where the legal and regulatory authority of federal and state agencies was inadequate to protect human health.
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. In general, BRP efforts were fairly successful in assuaging public concerns, though some reluctance to taking nuclear power plant waste remains in the minds of some local community residents and township board members.
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Department of Energy Suggest improvements in management and oversight activities to achieve the greatest risk reductions with available resources. Environmental Protection Agency Consistent, national standards for classifying radioactive materials such as pre-1978 ore processing residuals, oil and gas drilling wastes, and other NORM or TENORM, independent of pedigree...
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For example, NORM wastes routinely accepted at a fancify triggered a radiation monitor intenclect to ensure that rubble from a clecommissioned nuclear reactor meets very strict limits on its radioactivity (see Sidebar 4.2~. Uranium mining and processing wastes, which are radiologically similar to NORM wastes, are regulated under federal authority by their status at the time UMTRCA was enacted.
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