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Considerations on the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes From Nuclear-Powered Ships Into the Marine Environment (1959) / Chapter Skim
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Evaluation of the Coastal Area (Zone 2)
Pages 39-39

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... Such an evaluation should include a study of the routes by which activity introduced into the particular harbor or waterway may return to man; of the principal marine products harvested from the area; of the concentration factors to these food products both from the water and from the bottom sediments; and of the physical processes of movement, mixing and exchange of the waters of the particular marine locale. A similar comparison of the computed permissible activity of a single discharge, with either the predicted activity for the spent ion exchange resins from the SAVANNAH, or the observed activity on the resins from the NAUTILUS, contained in Tables 4 and 6, leads to the definite conclusion that spent ion exchange resins should not be discharged in harbors or other restricted coastal waterways.
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