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Science 26 August 1977:
Vol. 197. no. 4306, pp. 883 - 885
DOI: 10.1126/science.197.4306.883
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Radioactive Wastes: A Comparison of U.S. Military and Civilian Inventories

HARTMUT KRUGMANN 1 and FRANK VON HIPPEL 1

1 Center for Environmental Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Contrary to widespread belief, the accumulated inventory of fission products generated by the still small U.S. civilian nuclear power industry may already be comparable to that generated in the past by U.S. military nuclear programs. Although the volumes of the military wastes are very large, they are on the average almost 100 times more dilute than projected commercial high-level wastes.

Submitted on February 22, 1977
Revised on April 26, 1977


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Military Uses of Uranium: Keeping the U.S. Energy Accounts.
K. R. Smith and K. R. SMITH (1978)
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