Word: disposall
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Like most Boston-area colleges, Harvard contracts with the Interex Corporation of Natick, Mass. to haul away its gallons of radioactive sludge. Because it has jurisdiction over the entire medical area as well as portions of 15 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, the Unitversity is the area's largest college producer...
Shapiro describes the problem as "an Alice in Wonderland situation." Universities, he explains, produce very low-level wastes but they must ship them across the country to a place "that should be reserved for high-level materials." With Barnwell effectively shut down, only Hanford and a site in Beattie, Nevada...
In the State Legislature, meanwhile, the Natural Resources Committee is considering H.R. 6716, a bill "regulating the generation, transportation, storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes." Among other things, the bill promises public hearings in areas marked for potential dumping sites. If state regulations aren't enough, Harvard has Cambridge...
The alternative to shipping wastes away is on-site disposal. Timothy Johnson, project manager in the waste management division of the NRC, says the commission is currently looking for methods of solidifying and incinerating radioactive wastes. The University of Maryland, for example, is considering building a $150,000 incinerator for...
Radioactive wastes are the current gloomy spectre, but all types of hazardous wastes may haunt officials in the future. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently considering regulations to change waste disposal procedures. Should the regulations be implemented, says Carl Gerber of the White House's Office of Science and...