Abstract
New York State is a relatively large producer of LLRW. In 1990, New York State ranked fifth nationally in the volume of waste shipped to LLRW disposal facilities and seventh in the amount of radioactivity shipped. Seventy-two percent by volume of this waste was from utilities, 28 percent from institutional and industrial sources, and the remaining fraction was from government. Table 4 gives the total LLRW from New York State disposed of at commercial disposal sites for the period 1979 to 1990. The large majority of LLRW is shipped to the Barnwell, South Carolina, facility; in 1989, a typical year, over 70 percent of the waste by volume and over 98 percent of the waste by activity was shipped there.
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Vari, A., Reagan-Cirincione, P., Mumpower, J.L. (1994). New York. In: LLRW Disposal Facility Siting. Technology, Risk, and Society, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1120-1_3
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