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Estimated human health risks of disposing of nonhazardous oil field waste in salt caverns

Conference ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/578583· OSTI ID:650209

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has completed an evaluation of the possibility that adverse human health effects (carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic) could result from exposure to contaminants released from nonhazardous oil field wastes (NOW) disposed in domal salt caverns. In this assessment, several steps were used to evaluate potential human health risks: identifying potential contaminants of concern, determining how humans could be exposed to these contaminants, assessing the contaminants` toxicities, estimating contaminant intakes, and, finally, calculating human cancer and noncancer risks.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
650209
Report Number(s):
ANL/EA/CP--94447; CONF-9710175--; ON: DE97054323
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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