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Analysis of Local Acceptance of a Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility
Risk Analysis, 2008Like many other countries in the world, Korea has struggled to site a facility for radioactive waste for almost 30 years because of the strong opposition from local residents. Finally, in 2005, Gyeongju was established as the first Korean site for a radioactive waste facility.
Chung, Ji Bum +2 more
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Environmental Audits of Hazardous Waste Disposal and Treatment Facilities
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, 1989Hazardous waste generators have a duty of care in ensuring that their wastes are disposed of in an environmentally acceptable manner. Increasingly, generators are being made liable for environmental damage at the site of a waste disposal contractor if their wastes have been accepted by that facility.
J WONGJR, R ROIG, G EDULJEE
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Preventing Improper Disposal of Healthcare Facility Waste Containing RAM
Health Physics, 2004Non-hazardous waste management facilities, which are not authorized to receive licensable radioactive material (RAM), periodically find contaminated waste in shipments from local healthcare facilities. As a consequence, many healthcare facilities are cited each year for losing control and/or improperly disposing of RAM at unauthorized disposal sites ...
René, Michel, Michael J, Zorn
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Auditing Waste Disposal Facilities
1987In order to minimize their potential liability for the disposal of hazardous wastes, many companies are evaluating how they select their waste disposal vendors. Companies fear being named in the future as a potentially responsible party at a facility which might become a Superfund site. This has prompted the development of a number of programs to audit
David I. Brandwein +5 more
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The establishment of a radioactive waste disposal facility in western Australia for low level waste
Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 1998The Radiation Health Section of the Health Department of Western Australia has been a repository for unwanted radioactive sources for many years. They had been placed in the radioactive store located on the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre Campus. After a collection period of more than 20 years the storage facilities of the Radiation Health Section ...
B M, Hartley +6 more
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Site Selection of a Waste Disposal Facility in Kuwait, Arabian Gulf
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, 1988The study is part of a programme on solid waste management in the Shuiba Industrial Area in Kuwait. Potential landfill sites were identified and evaluated in terms of environmental, technical and socio-economic factors. Exclusion/avoidance criteria were formulated and used for a preliminary screening, which resulted in two candidate sites.
D ALBAKRI +3 more
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Gypsum treated fly ash as a liner for waste disposal facilities
Waste Management, 2011Fly ash has potential application in the construction of base liners for waste containment facilities. While most of the fly ashes improve in the strength with curing, the ranges of permeabilities they attain may often not meet the basic requirement of a liner material.
Puvvadi V, Sivapullaiah +1 more
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WASTE WATER TREATMENT FACILITIES AND DISPOSAL WELL INJECTION SYSTEM
Proceedings of Middle East Technical Conference and Exhibition, 1981ABSTRACT In order to eradicate the chances of sea and land pollution, Arabian Oil Company have introduced wastewater treatment facilities and disposal well injection system, where this system will treat different kinds of oily contaminated industrial wastewater and produce a quality of water which can be readily disposed of into a chosen
Khaled A. Al-Arfaj, Takeshi Nomitsu
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Debates around a waste disposal facility
2001In this paper, we insist on some elements allowing to show that the public controversies are complex and singular phenomena. The case relates to a waste disposal facility.
Barbier, R., Waechter, V.
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Development of a national toxic waste disposal facility in the state of Bahrain
Waste Management & Research, 1988Bahrain is an example of a small, newly industrialized country with a limited range of both heavy and light industry. A survey of toxic and hazardous wastes identified only four significant streams of bulk solid wastes and three of oily wastes. In these circumstances, the establishment of a conventional centralized treatment facility complete with high-
David C. Wilson, Walter J. Vreeland
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