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Radioactivity and radon exhalation from cat litter – Is there an issue?

by Sarrou I. Varnava N. Ioannidis I. Pashalidis I.

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The main component of clumping cat litter is usually bentonite, which besides potassium (including K-40) contains uranium radium, and may also exhalate radon. Ten different cat litter samples, which are commercially available in Cyprus and have been imported from various countries, have been...

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Impact from road transport of radioactive wastes in Spain

by

Calleja J.A., Gutierrez F. and Colon C.

Issue 2

General

This work focuses in transport of high level radioactive wastes, mainly consisting of spent fuels from nuclear power utilities in Spain. To date, these wastes are being stored in the own generating facilities, or they are sent to France; but these options are not any more technically or economically...

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On leakage from the near-surface radioactive waste storage facility

by

Konstantinova M., Gudelis A. and Butkus D.

Issue 1

General

Maisiagala RADON type radioactive waste storage facility was commissioned in 1963 in a marshy, ecologically sensitive locality, where soluble radionuclides easily can penetrate and migrate with groundwater. To assure the requirements of radiation safety, the analysis of radionuclide leakage from the...

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