Radioactive waste management at a large university medical research complex

Journal Article · Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society

OSTI ID:186239

Ring, J; Osborne, F; Lorenzen, W ^[1]

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1. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); and others

This report describes radioactive waste management at Harvard University. To contain costs and to reduce the impact of the low-level radioactive waste policy act, the program takes advantage of decay in storage, incineration, special packaging techniques, and increased training and awareness. A series of metrics, numerical ratios, are presented to evaluate the effectiveness of the radioactive waste management program. Through the use of this program, the amount of waste disposed of at commercial burial sites decreased from 98 to 1.09% of the wastes generated.

• OSTI ID: 186239
• Report Number(s): CONF-950601-; ISSN 0003-018X; TRN: 95:004729-0008
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 72; Conference: Annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), Philadelphia, PA (United States), 25-29 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
METRICS
PACKAGING
TRAINING
MINIMIZATION