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Radiological Assessment for the Dumping of Radioactive Wastes in the Oceans

Description: Over the last three decades or so, a number of international meetings have been convened to treat the specific problem of radioactive waste disposal into the oceans. The first of these meetings was held in 1958 at the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. Immediately following, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in the Brynielsson Report, recommended measures for ensuring that disposal of radioactive waste into the sea would not result in unacceptable hazards to man (IAEA… more
Date: June 1993
Creator: Templeton, W. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radiological assessment for the dumping of radioactive wastes in the oceans

Description: Over the last three decades or so, a number of international meetings have been convened to treat the specific problem of radioactive waste disposal into the oceans. The first of these meetings was held in 1958 at the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. Immediately following, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in the Brynielsson Report, recommended measures for ensuring that disposal of radioactive waste into the sea would not result in unacceptable hazards to man (IAEA… more
Date: June 1, 1993
Creator: Templeton, W. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The effects of ionizing radiation on aquatic organisms

Description: Scientific Committee {number sign}64-6 of the National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) of the United States has recently completed a review of the literature on the effects of ionizing radiation on aquatic organisms (NCRP 1990). In this report, the NCRP provides guidance for a dose rate below which deleterious effects to aquatic organisms are acceptably low; reviews a series of simple dosimetric models that can be applied to demonstrate compliance with such a dose rate; provides examples… more
Date: September 1, 1990
Creator: Templeton, W. L. & Baylock, B. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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