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Incentives and the siting of radioactive waste facilities

Description: The importance of social and institutional issues in the siting of nuclear waste facilities has been recognized in recent years. Limited evidence from a survey of rural Wisconsin residents in 1980 indicates that incentives may help achieve the twin goals of increasing local support and decreasing local opposition to hosting nuclear waste facilities. Incentives are classified according to functional categories (i.e., mitigation, compensation, and reward) and the conditions which may be prerequis… more
Date: August 1, 1982
Creator: Carnes, S. A.; Copenhaver, E. D.; Reed, J. H.; Soderstrom, E. J.; Sorensen, J. H.; Peelle, E. et al.
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Study of federal microwave standards

Description: Present and future federal regulatory processes which may impact the permissible levels of microwave radiation emitted by the SPS Microwave Power Transmission (MPTS) were studied. An historical development of US occupational and public microwave standards includes an overview of Western and East European philosophies of environmental protection and neurophysiology which have led to the current widely differing maximum permissible exposure limits to microwaves. The possible convergence of microw… more
Date: August 1, 1980
Creator: David, L.
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Bibliography of the Interagency Energy/Environment R and D Program

Description: The Interagency Energy/Environment Research and Development Program, which is comprised of more than a dozen federal agencies and departments, is coordinated by the Office of Energy, Minerals and Industry within EPA's Office of Research and Development. The Interagency Program integrates research efforts in two main categories: health and environmental effects of energy systems and development of environmental control technologies. This bibliography lists publications resulting from research an… more
Date: August 1, 1979
Creator: Jacoff, F.S. (ed.)
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Health Workforce Programs in Title VII of the Public Health Service Act

Description: This report describes and summarizes Title VII of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) programs. It describes federal support for institutions and individuals in efforts to expand and sustain the pipeline for health professions education and training.
Date: August 13, 2013
Creator: Reyes-Akinbileje, Bernice
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Second phase report on identification of environmental issues hybrid wood-geothermal power plant. Wendel-Amedee KGRA, Lassen County, California

Description: The permitting process is reviewed. The environmental data requirements are presented for: air resources; vegetation and wildlife; geotechnical environment; surface waters; cultural resources; public health, industrial hygiene, and noise; land use and socio-economic factors; and scheduling and budgets. (MHR)
Date: August 14, 1981
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Identification of hazards in non-nuclear power plants. Volume 1. Summary report. Phase I and Phase II. Consultant report

Description: This report summarizes the first step in an evaluation of the public health and safety hazards associated with non-nuclear plants. The study was limited to hazards that could affect the general public outside the plant boundaries. Public health and safety hazards are identified for seven types of power plants: coal-fired conventional boiler, atmospheric fluidized bed boiler, pressurized fluidized bed-combined cycle, oil-fired, oil-fired steam turbine, combined cycle, combustion (gas) turbine, a… more
Date: August 1, 1979
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A Spatially Explicit Environmental Health Surveillance Framework for Tick-Borne Diseases

Description: In this paper, I will show how applying a spatially explicit context to an existing environmental health surveillance framework is vital for more complete surveillance of disease, and for disease prevention and intervention strategies. As a case study to test the viability of a spatial approach to this existing framework, the risk of human exposure to Lyme disease will be estimated. This spatially explicit framework divides the surveillance process into three components: hazard surveillance, ex… more
Date: August 2010
Creator: Aviña, Aldo
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Medical Testing and Health Insurance

Description: Tests to identify individuals who are likely to develop serious diseases are being rapidly developed. Some of these tests are directed at diseases for which there are presently no known therapies, thereby raising questions over the social consequences of identifying susceptible persons. This assessment examines existing and developing medical tests and their current and potential uses by health insurers and employers.
Date: August 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
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Estimating Buruli Ulcer Prevalence in Southwestern Ghana

Description: Mycobacterium ulcerans is sweeping across sub-Saharan Africa, but little is known about the mode of transmission and its natural reservoirs. Since the only effective treatment is excision of the infection and surrounding tissue, early diagnosis and treatment is the only way to reduce the havoc associated with Buruli ulcer. Using data from a national case search survey conducted in Ghana during 2000 and suspected risk factors this study tests the hypothesized factors and probes the challenges of… more
Date: August 2007
Creator: Denton, Curtis James
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Workshop Characterization of Pathogenicity, Virulence and Host-Pathogen Interactions

Description: The threats of bio-terrorism and newly emerging infectious diseases pose serious challenges to the national security infrastructure. Rapid detection and diagnosis of infectious disease in human populations, as well as characterizing pathogen biology, are critical for reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with such threats. One of the key challenges in managing an infectious disease outbreak, whether through natural causes or acts of overt terrorism, is detection early enough to initia… more
Date: August 30, 2006
Creator: Krishnan, A.
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Communication of emergency public warnings: A social science perspective and state-of-the-art assessment

Description: More than 200 studies of warning systems and warning response were reviewed for this social science perspective and state-of-the-art assessment of communication of emergency public warnings. The major findings are as follows. First, variations in the nature and content of warnings have a large impact on whether or not the public heeds the warning. Relevant factors include the warning source; warning channel; the consistency, credibility, accuracy, and understandability of the message; and the w… more
Date: August 1, 1990
Creator: Mileti, D.S. (Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (USA)) & Sorensen, J.H. (Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA))
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National energy strategy: Recent studies comparing the health impacts of energy technologies

Description: The human health impacts of energy technologies arise mostly from routine emissions of pollutants and from traumatic accidents, which may also release pollutants. The natures and magnitudes of the risks differ among technologies -- they are a lot different for some -- and so the differences must be included in any evaluation of their relative merits. Based on the characteristics of their health risks, energy technologies can be classified into three groups: The fuel group, the renewable resourc… more
Date: August 1, 1990
Creator: Rowe, M.D.
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Analysis of offsite Emergency Planning Zones (EPZs) for the Rocky Flats Plant. [Contains glossary]

Description: A quality assurance plan (QAP) is a documented description or a listing of the controls to be implemented to assure that an operation or activity is accomplished in a consistent manner and in accordance with requirements. Federal, state, and local governments require emergency planning for facilities that may affect the public in the event of an accidental release of nuclear or hazardous materials. One of the purposes of this EG G Rocky Flats Plant (RFP) Analysis of Offsite Emergency Planning Z… more
Date: August 1, 1990
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Tiger Team assessment of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

Description: This report documents the Tiger Team Assessment of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) located in Idaho Falls, Idaho. INEL is a multiprogram, laboratory site of the US Department of Energy (DOE). Overall site management is provided by the DOE Field Office, Idaho; however, the DOE Field Office, Chicago has responsibility for the Argonne National Laboratory-West facilities and operations through the Argonne Area Office. In addition, the Idaho Branch Office of the Pittsburgh Naval Rea… more
Date: August 1, 1991
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Results of the Radiological Survey at the Firemen's Memorial Park and Fire Hall No. 2, Garibaldi Avenue and Kennedy Drive, Lodi, New Jersey (LJ066)

Description: Maywood Chemical Works (MCW) of Maywood, New Jersey, generated process wastes and residues associated with the production and refining of thorium and thorium compounds from monazite ores from 1916 to 1956. MCW supplied rare earth metals and thorium compounds to the Atomic Energy Commission and various other government agencies from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. Area residents used the sandlike waste from this thorium extraction process mixed with tea and cocoa leaves as mulch in their yards.… more
Date: August 1, 1989
Creator: Foley, R. D.; Floyd, L. M. & Crutcher, J. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Location: 40.882655 -74.079346
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Standard Review Plan for the review of license renewal applications for nuclear power plants

Description: The Environmental Standard Review Plan for the Review of License Applications for Nuclear Power Plants (ESRP-LR) is to be used by the NRC staff when performing environmental reviews of applications for the renewal of power reactor licenses. The use of the ESRP-LR provides a framework for the staff to determine whether or not environmental issues important to license renewal have been identified and the impacts evaluated and provides acceptance standards to help the reviewers comply with the Nat… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: O'Brien, J.; Kim, T.J. & Reynolds, S.
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Environmental assessment of the thermal neutron activation explosive detection system for concourse use at US airports

Description: This document is an environmental assessment of a system designed to detect the presence of explosives in checked airline baggage or cargo. The system is meant to be installed at the concourse or lobby ticketing areas of US commercial airports and uses a sealed radioactive source of californium-252 to irradiate baggage items. The major impact of the use of this system arises from direct exposure of the public to scattered or leakage radiation from the source and to induced radioactivity in bagg… more
Date: August 1, 1990
Creator: Jones, C.G.
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Industry initiatives in impact mitigation

Description: The author concludes that mitigation is the focus of conflicting opinions regarding responsibility, strategy, and effort. There are no hard, fast, or tried and true rules for company involvement in mitigation efforts. Each mitigation effort must be tailored and negotiated to match the unique characteristics of individual projects and circumstances of specific locales. Companies must assume financial responsibility for the temporary impacts and area needs created by their projects. They must als… more
Date: August 1, 1982
Creator: Metz, W.C.
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Hybrid wood-geothermal power plant, Wendel-Amedee KGRA, Lassen County, California. Identification of environmental issues, second phase

Description: GeoProducts Corporation and the California Department of Water Resources have jointly proposed to develop a 55 MWe power plant in Lassen County, California. The proposed power plant is unique in that it will utilize geothermal heat and wood fuel to generate electrical power, the first attempt to utilize these resources together on a commercial scale. This report identifies requirements for new environmental information that must be generated for permit applications and for preparation of enviro… more
Date: August 14, 1981
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Analyzing geographic clustered response

Description: In the study of geographic disease clusters, an alternative to traditional methods based on rates is to analyze case locations on a transformed map in which population density is everywhere equal. Although the analyst's task is thereby simplified, the specification of the density equalizing map projection (DEMP) itself is not simple and continues to be the subject of considerable research. Here a new DEMP algorithm is described, which avoids some of the difficulties of earlier approaches. The n… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Merrill, D.W.; Selvin, S. & Mohr, M.S.
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Analysis of health impact inputs to the US Department of Energy's risk information system

Description: The US Department of Energy (DOE) is in the process of completing a survey of environmental problems, referred to as the Environmental Survey, at their facilities across the country. The DOE Risk Information System (RIS) is being used to prioritize these environmental problems identified in the Environmental Survey's findings. This report contains a discussion of site-specific public health risk parameters and the rationale for their inclusion in the RIS. These parameters are based on computed … more
Date: August 1, 1990
Creator: Droppo, Jr., J. G.; Buck, J. W.; Strenge, D. L. & Siegel, M. R.
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National energy strategy: Recent studies comparing the health impacts of energy technologies

Description: The human health impacts of energy technologies arise mostly from routine emissions of pollutants and from traumatic accidents, which may also release pollutants. The natures and magnitudes of the risks differ among technologies -- they are a lot different for some -- and so the differences must be included in any evaluation of their relative merits. Based on the characteristics of their health risks, energy technologies can be classified into three groups: The fuel group, the renewable resourc… more
Date: August 1, 1990
Creator: Rowe, M. D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A philosophy for space nuclear systems safety

Description: The unique requirements and contraints of space nuclear systems require careful consideration in the development of a safety policy. The Nuclear Safety Policy Working Group (NSPWG) for the Space Exploration Initiative has proposed a hierarchical approach with safety policy at the top of the hierarchy. This policy allows safety requirements to be tailored to specific applications while still providing reassurance to regulators and the general public that the necessary measures have been taken to… more
Date: August 1, 1992
Creator: Marshall, A. C.
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