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

Technical Report · Sat Nov 01 04:00:00 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., TN (USA)
• 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
ACCIDENTS
CONTAMINATION
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
EXPLOSIONS
FALLOUT
LAND POLLUTION
LAND POLLUTION ABATEMENT
MASS TRANSFER
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
POLLUTION
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
RADIOECOLOGY
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
REACTOR ACCIDENTS
REVIEWS
RISK ASSESSMENT