Northeastern Regional Environmental Characterization Report. Executive summary. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6232665

This Executive Summary of the final Northeastern Regional Environmental Characterization Report (RECR) is issued primarily for public information purposes and provides a general overview of the report. The complete RECR presents available regional environmental information pertinent to siting a repository for high-level nuclear waste in crystalline rock in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. For each of the states within the Northeastern Region, information is provided on the environmental disqualifying factors and the environmental regional screening variables to be used in region-to-area screening.

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Inst., Argonne, IL (USA). Office of Crystalline Repository Development
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-83CH10139
• OSTI ID: 6232665
• Report Number(s): DOE/CH-4-Exec.Summ.; ON: DE86006047
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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