The long-term problems of contaminated land: Sources, impacts and countermeasures

Technical Report · Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1986

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7148724· OSTI ID:7148724

Baes, III, C F

This report examines the various sources of radiological land contamination; its extent; its impacts on man, agriculture, and the environment; countermeasures for mitigating exposures; radiological standards; alternatives for achieving land decontamination and cleanup; and possible alternatives for utilizing the land. The major potential sources of extensive long-term land contamination with radionuclides, in order of decreasing extent, are nuclear war, detonation of a single nuclear weapon (e.g., a terrorist act), serious reactor accidents, and nonfission nuclear weapons accidents that disperse the nuclear fuels (termed ''broken arrows'').

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 7148724
• Report Number(s): ORNL-6146; ON: DE87002969
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
LAND POLLUTION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
LAND POLLUTION ABATEMENT
RADIOECOLOGY
CONTAMINATION
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY
FALLOUT
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
REACTOR ACCIDENTS
REVIEWS
RISK ASSESSMENT
ACCIDENTS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
EXPLOSIONS
MASS TRANSFER
POLLUTION
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
510300* - Environment
Terrestrial- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)