Word: disposall
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The nuclear waste issue came to a head last November, when state voters gave a referendum limiting the disposal of radioactive waste resounding support.
In this instance, the issue did not involve research directly; the bill was aimed at nuclear power plants. But a significant portion of bio medical research is used to generate such waste. The bill actually exempts such research, but universities insist that provision is useless. If all other waste disposal...
Since then, the EHS has burgeoned into an organization of more than 30 people which deals with problems ranging from genetic engineering to fire protection. It has seven subdivisions, each of which handles a specific area of health and safety, and its team include such diverse specialists as Louis J...
The 17 member radiation protection group is one of EHS's busiest. It is responsible for overseeing the approximately 2700 Harvard workers who deal with radioactive material or X-ray machines. The group deals particularly frequently with researchers who are working on cancer related projects in Harvard's labs and...
Johnson notes that while Harvard labs have never had to deal directly with radiation "overexposures," there have been cases of significant and positive exposures. When he came to the EHS in 1959, he says, the radiation protection program was in a "helter skelter state," and there were several violations of...