Management of Commingled Uranium Mill Tailings: Hearings Before the Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, August 17 and 18, 1982 |
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activities amendment analysis assessment Atomic Energy Act average calculated cancer deaths cleanup commingled tailings Commission Committee concentrations of radon Congress cost daughter products decay products decontamination Department of Energy environment factor Federal FUSRAP gamma radiation HARLEY hazard health effects HERNANDEZ ICRP industry ionizing radiation Kerr-McGee levels license lifetime risk limit lung cancer material measurements Mexico mile Mill Tailings Act mill tailings piles million millirem mining National natural background NCRP NRC's Nuclear Nuclear Regulatory Commission pCi/liter percent picocuries population potential problem public health question Radiation Protection radioactive Radiological radium radon and radon radon concentrations radon daughters radon flux radon releases RAPSO recommendations regulations regulatory remedial action requirements result risk estimates safety Salt Lake City Secretary SHWILLER significant soil stabilization STRATTON subsection tion United uranium mill tailings uranium miners uranium tailings
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