Hazardous waste incineration and human health

Book · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5719252

Travis, C C ^[1]; Cook, S C ^[2]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States). Health and Safety Research Div.
2. NCR Corp., Dayton, OH (US)

This book provides an introduction to the public health implications of hazardous waste incineration. The complexities involved in defining, measuring, and regulating the nation's hazardous waste are discussed, as well as brief descriptions of the hazardous waste incineration process. Summaries of the data base for the incinerator test burns conducted by or for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are presented, along with a description of the four components of risk analysis, sample calculations of both carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic health risk estimates, and the predictive methodology employed in quantitative risk assessment for hazardous waste incinerators.

• OSTI ID: 5719252
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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