[PDF] Geological Aspects Of Industrial Waste Disposal eBook

Author : Stephen M. Testa
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1000157865

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Geologic Aspects of Hazardous Waste Management brings together technical, legislative, regulatory, and business aspects of hazardous waste issues as they pertain to preventing, assessing, containing, and remediating soil and groundwater contamination. The book emphasizes how subsurface geologic and hydrogeologic conditions affect the decision-making process, and it focuses on critical issues facing industry, government, and the public. The book is excellent for consultants, project managers, regulators, geologists, geophysicists, hydrologists, hydrogeologists, risk assessors, environmental engineers, chemists, toxicologists, and environmental lawyers.

Author : Fort Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1351445197

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This monograph contains the proceedings of the 9th Annual Symposium on Geo-aspects of Waste Management, February 1-6, 1987 held at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Author : Stephen M. Testa
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1000115062

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Geologic Aspects of Hazardous Waste Management brings together technical, legislative, regulatory, and business aspects of hazardous waste issues as they pertain to preventing, assessing, containing, and remediating soil and groundwater contamination. The book emphasizes how subsurface geologic and hydrogeologic conditions affect the decision-making process, and it focuses on critical issues facing industry, government, and the public. The book is excellent for consultants, project managers, regulators, geologists, geophysicists, hydrologists, hydrogeologists, risk assessors, environmental engineers, chemists, toxicologists, and environmental lawyers.

Author : Konrad Krauskopf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400912013

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The perception of radioactive waste as a major problem for the industrial world has developed only recently. Four decades ago the disposal of such waste was regarded as a relatively minor matter. Those were the heady days when nuclear fission seemed the answer to the world's energy needs: the two wartime bombs had demonstrated its awesome power, and now it was to be harnessed for the production of electricity, the excavation of canals, even the running of cars and airplanes. In all applications of fission some waste containing radioactive elements would be generated of course, but it seemed only a trivial annoyance, a problem whose solution could be deferred until the more exciting challenges of constructing reactors and devising more efficient weapons had been mastered. So waste accumulated, some in tanks and some buried in shallow trenches. These were recognized as only temporary, makeshift measures, because it was known that the debris would be hazardous to its surroundings for many thousands of years and hence that more permanent disposal would someday be needed. The difficulty of accomplishing this more lasting disposal only gradually became apparent. The difficulty has been compounded by uncertainty about the physiological effects oflow-Ievel radiation, by the inadequacy of detailed knowledge about the behavior of engineered and geologic materials over long periods under unusual conditions, and by the sensitization of popular fears about radiation in all its forms following widely publicized reactor accidents and leaks from waste storage sites.