SDA Volume 4, Number 4: Atomic Puzzler
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| 1. Federal regulations which codify current environmental radiation protection standards for high-level waste repositories. | 2.Overall individual dose limit for the general population from all sources of radiation other than medical. |
| 5.System to be used for disposal of high-level radioactive wastes below ground: ______ Repository. | 3. Decontamination and dismantlement of retired, contaminated nuclear facilities and removal and/or disposal of the resulting wastes. |
| 9.Occupation of hypothetical "maximally exposed individual" commonly used in constructing scenarios to calculate a future. | 4.The individuals reasonably expected to receive the greatest exposure to radioactivity from a disposal or decommissioning activity. |
| 11.Only member of the National Academy of Sciences panel to file a dissent to the majority findings. | 6. Type of survey routinely conducted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to verify licensees meet NRC criteria. |
| 12.Term describing possible ways a contaminated plume of groundwater might travel: Plume _____. | 7.Current US law dictates that this location is the only potential repository to be investigated for disposal of high-level wastes in the United States. |
| 13.Native American tribe which claims the site described in 7 Down as their land: Western ______. | 8.Chairman of an ad hoc panel of the National Academy of Sciences which studied the setting of standards for high level waste disposal in the location referred to in 10 Down. |
| 14. The regulatory law which requires the national oil and hazardous substances pollution contingency plan. | 10.This state is home to the only potential repository for high-level nuclear wastes in the US. |
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