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Pollution: Waste Disposal and Treatment
The Massachusetts Bay Outfall
Helpful to educators and students.
WHOI Sea Grant
Focal Points, 3 pp., 1998 WHOI-G-98-003
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The Boston Harbor Cleanup Project: Current Research Supported
by WHOI Sea Grant
Helpful to educators and students.
Crago, T.I. (ed.)
2 pp., 1993 WHOI-A-93-001
International Law and Scientific Consultation on Radio
Active Waste Disposal in the Ocean
Finn, D.P.
Wastes in the Ocean, Vol. 3, pp. 65-104, 1983 WHOI-R-83-013
Nuclear Waste Management Activities in the Pacific Basin
and Regional Cooperation on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Finn, D.P.
Ocean Development and International Law Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2,
pp. 213-246, 1983 WHOI-R-83-014
Pacific Ocean and island sites have been used since World War II
for nuclear activities, including effluent discharges from nuclear
facilities, sea dumping of packaged radioactive wastes, and testing
of nuclear explosives. In the future, the amounts of radioactive
wastes deliberately released into the Pacific Ocean may increase
in connection with planned commercial-scale nuclear fuel processing
operations, recommencement of plutonium production for weapons purposes,
and resumption of sea dumping of low-level wastes. Proposed storage
of spent nuclear fuel on Pacific island sites or disposal of high-level
wastes in the deep seabed of the Pacific could also expose the ocean
to a risk of contamination by long-lived radionuclides. The consequences
of all these activities should be assessed in practical terms„their
likely effects on the living marine resources of the Pacific and
the economic development of the societies benefited by them; in
terms of the legal principles which govern activities such as marine
radioactive waste disposal that could pollute the marine environment;
and in relation to current and future organizational arrangements
that could achieve political resolution of outstanding international
nuclear energy issues. Despite the prospective dangers of marine
nuclear activities, the use of relatively remote or extraterritorial
marine locations including those in the Pacific basin for nuclear
operations could provide a basis for international cooperation on
management of the "back end" of the nuclear fuel cycle,
including storage and reprocessing of spent fuel and high-level
waste disposal. A broadly recognized international regime for the
nuclear fuel cycle could be based on regional organization of such
back-end operations, provided local acceptance could be obtained.
International Cooperation to Protect the Marine Environment:
The Case of Radioactive Waste Disposal
Finn, D.P.
Oceans, pp. 601-604, 1981 WHOI-R-81-016
Ocean Disposal of Radioactive Wastes: The Obligation of
International Cooperation to Protect the Marine Environment
Finn, D.P.
Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 621-690,
1981 WHOI- R-81-015
Sub-seabed Disposal of Radioactive Waste: Prevention or
Management
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available on loan from the National Sea Grant Library
Deese, D.A.
1977 WHOI-Y1-77-001
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