Health effects and related standards for fossil-fuel and geothermal power plants. Volume 6 of health and safety impacts of nuclear, geothermal, and fossil-fuel electric generation in California. [In California]

Technical Report · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5238953· OSTI ID:5238953

Case, G D; Bertolli, T A; Bodington, J C; Choy, T A; Nero, A V

This report reviews health effects and related standards for fossil-fuel and geothermal power plants, emphasizing impacts which may occur through emissions into the atmosphere, and treating other impacts briefly. Federal regulations as well as California state and local regulations are reviewed. Emissions are characterized by power plant type, including: coal-fired, oil-fired, gas-fired, combined cycle and advanced fossil-fuel plants; and liquid and vapor geothermal systems. Dispersion and transformation of emissions are treated. The state of knowledge of health effects, based on epidemiological, physiological, and biomedical studies, is reviewed.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5238953
• Report Number(s): LBL-5287
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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