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Citizens' Nuclear Waste Manual (1984)
| Author | NIRS |
| Date | May 1984 |
| Classification | 3.01.4.10/43 (UNITED STATES - WASTE - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
INTRODUCTION "High Level Waste is considered one of the most hazardous and complex of all radioactive wastes to manage. The radioactivity produced by these materials can damage or destroy living cells, causing cancer and possibly death, depending on the quantity and length of time individuals are exposed to it. Therefore, disposal techniques must be developed to assure that the radiation and toxicity from this waste will not affect either present or future generations." --Report to the Congress by the Comptroller General, Nuclear Energy's Dilemma: Disposing of Hazardous Radioactive Waste Safely, 3(EMD-77- 41) (1977) "The central scientific fact about radioactive material is that there is no method of altering the period of time in which a particular species remains radioactive, and thereby potentially toxic and hazardous without changing that species. Only with time will the material decay to a stable (non-radioactive) element. The pertinent decay times vary from hundreds of years for the bulk of the fission products to millions of years for certain of the actinide elements and long-lived fission products." --Report to the President by the Interagency Review Group on Nuclear Waste Management, 9 (March 1979) "The Congress finds that… Federal efforts during the past 30 years to devise a permanent solution to the problems of civilian radioactive waste disposal have not been adequate." --Public Law 97-425 (1983), Section 111(a)(3)
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