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Book Environmental Assessment Methodologies for Sea Dumping of Radioactive Wastes

Download or read book Environmental Assessment Methodologies for Sea Dumping of Radioactive Wastes written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by Bernan Press(PA). This book was released on 1984 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environmental Assessment Methodologies for Sea Dumping of Radioactive Wastes

Download or read book Environmental Assessment Methodologies for Sea Dumping of Radioactive Wastes written by IAEA/IMO Technical Committee and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea

Download or read book Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea written by Lasse Ringius and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of environmental regimes focus on the use of power, the pursuit of rational self-interest, and the influence of scientific knowledge. Lasse Ringius focuses instead on the influence of public ideas and policy entrepreneurs. He shows how transnational coalitions of policy entrepreneurs can build environmental regimes and how global environmental nongovernmental organizations can act as catalysts for regime change. This is the first book-length empirical study of the formation of the global ocean dumping regime in 1972 and its subsequent development, which culminated in the 1993 global ban on the dumping of low-level radioactive waste at sea. Ringius describes the structure within which global ocean dumping policy, particularly policy with regard to the disposal of radioactive waste, is embedded. He also examines the political construction of ocean dumping as a global environmental problem, the role of persuasion and communication in an international setting, and the formation of international public opinion. He does not argue that the influence of ideas alone explains how regimes develop, but claims that it is necessary to understand how actors, interests, and ideas together influence regimes and international environmental policy.

Book Assessing the Impact of Deep Sea Disposal of Low Level Radioactive Waste on Living Marine Resources

Download or read book Assessing the Impact of Deep Sea Disposal of Low Level Radioactive Waste on Living Marine Resources written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In revising the definition of high level radioactive waste unsuitable for dumping at sea, calculations of water concentrations in and near a dump site have been made and used to estimate doses to 'typical' marine species living at or near the sea floor at a depth of 4000 m. These calculations show that there are radionuclides that can give rise to significant doses to these typical species and that future revisions of the Definition and Recommendations under the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter will have to consider impacts on the marine ecosystem in setting limits for dumping.

Book Inventory of Radioactive Material Resulting from Historical Dumping Accidents and Losses at Sea

Download or read book Inventory of Radioactive Material Resulting from Historical Dumping Accidents and Losses at Sea written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by IAEA Tecdoc. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 the Contracting Parties to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (the London Convention 1972) requested that the IAEA undertake the preparation of a global inventory of radioactive materials entering the marine environment from all origins. The IAEA subsequently established a global inventory which included information officially reported in or obtained from open literature and confirmed by the countries involved, on (i) the dumping at sea of radioactive waste; and (ii) marine accidents and losses involving radioactive materials. The inventory is intended as a centralized information base against which the impact of specific sources of radioactive material entering the marine environment can be assessed and compared. In 2006 the IAEA received the request to update those inventories. The present publication includes additional information provided recently by some IAEA Member States and contracting parties to the London Convention 1972 and Protocol 1996 within a process of updating the inventory which concluded in 2014, together with the information contained in previous IAEA publications. A CD ROM provides tables, maps and a database with detailed information.

Book Proposed Revisions to Ocean Dumping Criteria

Download or read book Proposed Revisions to Ocean Dumping Criteria written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Oil and Special Materials Control Division and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Considerations on the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes from Nuclear powered Ships Into the Marine Environment

Download or read book Considerations on the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes from Nuclear powered Ships Into the Marine Environment written by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation on Oceanography and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radioactive waste Disposal in the Ocean

Download or read book Radioactive waste Disposal in the Ocean written by National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guidance Document for Prepermit Bioassay Testing of Low level Radioactive Waste

Download or read book Guidance Document for Prepermit Bioassay Testing of Low level Radioactive Waste written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the mandate of Public Law 92-532, the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) of 1972, as amended, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a program to promulgate regulations and criteria to control the ocean disposal of radioactive wastes. The EPA seeks to understand the mechanisms for biological response of marine organisms to the low levels of radioactivity that may arise from the release of these wastes as a result of ocean-disposal practices. Such information will play an important role in determining the adequacy of environmental assessments provided to the EPA in support of any disposal permit application. Although the EPA requires packaging of low-level radioactive waste to prevent release during radiodecay of the materials, some release of radioactive material into the deep-sea environment may occur when a package deteriorates. Therefore, methods for evaluating the impact on biota are being evaluated. Mortality and phenotypic responses are not anticipated at the expected low environmental levels that might occur if radioactive materials were released from the low-level waste packages. Therefore, traditional bioassay systems are unsuitable for assessing sublethal effects on biota in the marine environment. The EPA Office of Radiation Programs (ORP) has had an ongoing program to examine sublethal responses to radiation at the cellular level, using cytogenetic end points. This technical guidance report represents prepermit bioassay procedures that potentially may be applicable to the assessment of effects from a mixture of radionuclides that could be released from a point source at the ocean bottom. Methodologies along with rationale and a discussion of uncertainty are presented for the sediment benthic bioassay protocols identified in this report.

Book Global Strategies for Marine Environmental Protection

Download or read book Global Strategies for Marine Environmental Protection written by IMO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/WHO/IAEA/UN/UNEP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: