There has been a great deal of public concern about the dangers of buried radioactive waste from the nuclear industry. The rational approach to evaluating these concerns is to develop quantitative estimates of the health impacts to be expected from these wastes, and compare them with the health impacts of wastes from alternative technologies. It is our purpose here to outline that process and develop the results.
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1986
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