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14 Observations Concerning Mayak--Frank L. Parker
Pages 95-98

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From page 95...
... 2009. Rehabilitation of contaminated groundwater layers near the Mayak enterprise using deep burial technology.
From page 96...
... The discussion of its present impact states that the "forecasts of how the situation may develop over a fairly long period (300 years) indicate that in the future there will be practically no radiologically significant discharge of contaminated groundwater into the open hydrographic network." There is no mention of the closure of water wells in the vicinity that had been an imminent threat earlier nor the likely effect after 300 years.
From page 97...
... Extreme accident situations due to caused underestimation of the characteristic features of the spatiotemporal changes in the development of present-day geodynamic processes have not been ruled out here."14 It appears that the only way to settle this argument is to actually sample the projected flow paths to determine if there are greater concentrations of tritium there than in background samples.   The Technical Steering Panel of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project.
From page 98...
... I am indebted to my Russian and American colleagues for more detailed discussions on these topics and the detailed discussions on remediation of Russian sites covered in Alexakhin et al.15 15  Alexakhin, R


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