Topics Under Debate - Should Uniform Release Criteria be Established for Metal Recycling?
| Autor: | Proposer K.E. Kennedy Jr., Moderator J. C. McDonald, Opposer A. LaMastra |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Radiation
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology Waste management business.industry Atomic energy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Radioactive waste General Medicine Heavy industry Reuse Certified Health Physicist Health physics Agency (sociology) Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiation protection business |
| Zdroj: | Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 93:81-86 |
| ISSN: | 1742-3406 0144-8420 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006417 |
| Popis: | Many nuclear facilities have large quantities of metals that have potential value, but are slightly radioactive. These metals include copper, aluminium and steel that could be recycled and used in applications for which a small amount of radioactivity is not important. Perhaps it is possible to define the conditions under which these metals could be safely recycled. However, it is not clear that recycling of such metals would be considered to be useful by the metals industries, for a variety of reasons. In this debate, the merits and risks associated with recycling are discussed. Our participants are quite familiar with this question, and they have presented their views in the arguments and rebuttals that follow. William E. Kennedy, Jr. is an Associate at Dade Moeller & Associates, Inc., serving as a Senior Health Physicist. He has 25 years of experience with a focus on environmental health physics and pathway analysis modelling. He serves as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency on the development of clearance levels for the recycle and reuse of materials, is a member of National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements SC-87-3, Management of Low-Level Radioactive Waste and is chairman of the ANSI Standard N13.12 writing group that produced Surface and Volume Radioactivity Standards for Unconditional Clearance. Anthony LaMastra is a radiation safety consultant with Health Physics Associates, Inc. He is a Certified Health Physicist with more than 30 years experience, most of which was gained working in the steel industry and with heavy industry. He is a member of National Council on Radiation Protection committee SC-87-4, Management of Radioactive Metals, and a member of a Department of Energy (DOE) advisory group developing a feasibility study on the development of a dedicated facility to recycle contaminated metals within the DOE complex. |
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