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Cleaning up sites contaminated with radioactive materials : international workshop proceedings / Glenn E. Schweitzer, Frank L. Parker and Kelly Robbins, editors ; Committee on Cleaning Up of Radioactive Contamination: Russian Challenges and U.S. Experience, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, Development, Security and Cooperation, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radioactive decontamination--Congresses.
- Radioactive decontamination.
- Radioactive wastes--Congresses.
- Radioactive wastes.
- Radioactive waste disposal--Congresses.
- Radioactive waste disposal.
- Radioactive pollution--Congresses.
- Radioactive pollution.
- Radiation--Measurement--Congresses.
- Radiation.
- Environmental monitoring--Congresses.
- Environmental monitoring.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This publication features papers presented at the Workshop on Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials, held in Moscow in June 2007. This activity was organized by the National Academies in cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences and with funding provided by the Russell Family Foundation. The workshop was designed to promote exchanges of information on specific contaminated sites in Russia and elsewhere and to stimulate greater attention to the severity of the problems and the urgent need to clean up sites of concern to the local and international communities.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Opening Remarks
- 1 Welcoming Remarks
- 2 Welcoming Remarks
- 3 Welcoming Remarks
- 4 Interests of the International Science and Technology Center
- Overview Presentations
- 5 Ensuring Nuclear and Radiation Safety in the Use of Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes
- 6 The Environmental Policy of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) and Priority Objectives for its Implementation
- 7 Evaluation of Radiation Ecology Status Around Russian Nuclear and Radiation Enterprises Based on Landscape-Geochemical Research
- 8 Systems Studies of the Radiation Legacy and the Development of the Informational, Legal, and Regulatory Framework for Post-Rehabilitation Institutional Control, Oversight, and Management of Radiation-Hazard Facilities in the Russian Federation
- 9 Comprehensive Resolution of the Problem of Radioactive Waste Management and Rehabilitation of Contaminated Areas in the Moscow Region
- Case Studies
- 10 Lands Damaged as a Result of Uranium Ore Mining Operations in the Russian Federation
- 11 Uranium Recovery and Remediation of Uranium Mill Tailings: Russian and U.S. Experience
- 12 Experience in Rehabilitating Contaminated Land and Bodies of Water Around the Mayak Production Association
- 13 Rehabilitation of Contaminated Groundwater Layers Near the Mayak Enterprise Using Deep Burial Technology
- 14 Observations Concerning Mayak
- 15 Remediation of Contaminated Facilities at the Kurchatov Institute
- 16 Selected Remediation Issues at the Russian Research Center
- 17 Industrial Nuclear Explosion Sites in the Russian Federation: Recovery and Institutional Monitoring Problems
- 18 Comments on Presentation on Industrial Nuclear Explosion Sites in the Russian Federation: Recovery and Institutional Monitoring Problems
- 19 The Past, Present, and Future of the Facilities at Andreev Bay.
- 20 Environmental Remediation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste Temporary Storage Facilities in Gremikha Village: Challenges and Proposed Solutions
- 21 Criteria for Environmental Rehabilitation of the Temporary Storage Site for Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste in Gremikha Village
- 22 Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials: Coastal Maintenance Bases Andreev Bay and Gremikha
- Other Contributions
- 23 Criteria for Categorizing Territories at Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency Enterprises Experiencing Chemical and Radioactive Contamination
- 24 Areas of the Russian Federation Affected by Radiation Contamination Due to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident
- 25 The Experience of the Joint Environmental-Technological Scientific Research Center for Radioactive Waste Decontamination and Environmental Protection (MosNPO Radon) in Eliminating Radiation-Hazard Facilities and Rehabilitating Contaminated Sites
- 26 Use of GIS Technology for Assessing Territories Contaminated with Radioactive Materials
- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
- Appendix B: Titles of Additional Papers and Extended Abstracts Presented at the Workshop on Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Material.
- Notes:
- "In cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786612083624
- 9780309177368
- 0309177367
- 9781282083622
- 1282083627
- 9780309127622
- 0309127629
- OCLC:
- 567829897
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