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Office of Radiation Protection, Radioactive Materials Section Homepage - WA State Dept of Health
In-Vitro - Medical labs, hospitals, private physicians, and veterinarians using extremely limited amounts of radioactive material for in-vitro clinical testing are only required to register with the department. Test kits are limited in quantity and the hazard is low enough to allow any waste to be discarded in the ...
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Managing Radioactive Materials & Waste | Radiation Protection Program | US EPA
The waste can remain radioactive for a few hours or several months or even hundreds of thousands of years. On ... the form of radioactively contaminated industrial or research waste; and naturally occurring radioactive material. Mixed waste contains both radioactive and chemical components. Mixed waste is not a category of nuclear waste ...
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Integrated Environmental Management, Inc. - Radiation-Related Consulting and Services
Our products are solutions . . . solutions based on experience. If the issue has anything to do with radiation or radioactive material, IEM can help you reach an outcome that is not only technically-sound and legally-defensible, but cost-effective. ...
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Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) and Radiation Safety Training services
Likewise, our advice for radioactive material users ranges from the small school source to radioactive sources in the PBq range and above (i.e. we ... a nuclear research reactor and several gamma irradiation facilities). Our advice therefore also covers the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 and transport regulations. We also provide RPA advice for users of NORM ( ...
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Radiation Safety Resources
CHP, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. PDF version. Household Items. Check out the radiation levels of various common household items. Potassium-40. Facts and figures about the most common radioactive material, potassium-40. Potassium-40 is the most dominant naturally occurring radioisotope in soil. It is therefore found in almost all plant and animal life. Check out the potassium-40 ...
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Division of Environmental Health - Washington State Dept. of Health
Fish Facts Food Safety Hazardous Waste Sites Indoor Air Quality Lead Mercury Mold Nuclear Safety Pesticide Exposure and Illness PBDEs (flame retardants) Radiation Control Radioactive Material Licenses Radioactive Waste School Safety and Health Shellfish Safety Swimming Pools & Beach Safety Tick-Borne Diseases Wastewater West Nile Virus X-Ray Machines Zoonotic Diseases ( ...
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Climate Change - Energy: Nuclear
There are many safety issues surrounding nuclear power, especially as power plants age. Nuclear plants routinely emit radioactive material, imposing cancer risks on its workers, their children, and people in surrounding communities. Power plants can also leak other hazardous materials. For example, Pickering reactor #4 ...
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Radioactive Mixed Waste | Wastes | US EPA
May 16, 2001, provides increased flexibility to generators and facilities that manage low-level mixed waste (LLMW) and technologically-enhanced, naturally-occurring, and/or accelerator-produced radioactive material (NARM) containing hazardous waste. LLMW is exempt from some RCRA storage and treatment regulations, and LLMW or eligible NARM from RCRA hazardous waste transportation and disposal ...
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Radioactive Substances Exemption Order - Radioactive Substances Act 1993
Class A article must be covered by glass or other protective coating ... Exemption Order This order provides exclusion from the need to have an authorisation under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 for accumulation and disposal of 'waste closed sources'. There are particular exclusions ...
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"Ask the Experts" Category: Radioactive Waste Disposal
What is the current method for disposal of radioactive wastes? Q251 – How do I dispose of gadolinium-153 sources? Q559 – Handling and disposal of radioactive materials Q854 – Radioactive material containers Q1050 – UK disposal of radioactive waste Q1076 – Disposal of old lead rubber aprons Q2163 – Disposal of cesium-137 source Q2278 – Medical waste management Q2495 – Disposal of radioactive tissue ...
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