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16 Selected Remediation Issues at the Russian Research Center - Kurchatov Institute--Roy E. Gephart
Pages 110-115

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From page 110...
... Some public housing adjoins the site's outer perimeter. Today there are growing concerns over the public safety and environmental security of the site resulting from increasingly obsolete nuclear facilities and a legacy of inadequate waste management practices that resulted in contaminant releases and challenging remediation problems.
From page 111...
... This inventory could include, for example, information quantifying damaged vs. undamaged experimental spent fuel elements, buried waste, soil and groundwater contamination, surface facility hazards, and orphaned radioactive sources or scattered contaminated spots.
From page 112...
... In addition, a 90-m-long permeable subsurface reactive test barrier using apatite sequestration to inhibit the migration of strontium-90–contaminated groundwater flow into the nearby Columbia River is also being installed at the Hanford site. Such technology might be applicable to controlling the spread of the strontium-90 plume beneath RRC -- KI.
From page 113...
... There is a need for more site-specific information on such parameters as sediment hydraulic conductivity, water runoff, hydraulic heads, soil moisture, water infiltration, and the physicochemical characteristics of buried waste and subsurface contaminants to validate computational models, reduce modeling uncertainty, and more reliably use modeling results to predict present and future flow system behavior. Knowing the hydraulic properties and distributions of highly reworked, nonuniform shallow soil and rubbish mixtures (e.g., from past building demolitions, sediment excavations, ravine filling)
From page 114...
... Nearly 30 years of experience in the United States implementing federal waste management and cleanup regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act has demonstrated a strong correlation between public acceptance of waste cleanup actions and a lowering of public concerns with their degree of involvement in the decision-input process. Examples of successful actions for RRC -- KI officials to explore include (a)
From page 115...
... The loss of institutional memory can be rapid. For example, in the United States, within 2 years after the chemical waste site of Love Canal in New York State was sold, houses and a school were built atop the site, although the transfer deed specifically identified potential health hazards.


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