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Managing the health impacts of waste incineration

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A report from the National Research Council reveals the different issues arising from the use of waste incinerators e.g. pollution emissions, exposures, and health hazards.

Author: McKone, Thomas E., Hammond, S. Katharine
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 2000
Refuse Incinerators, Industrial Process Furnace and Oven Manufacturing, Industrial furnaces and ovens, Health aspects, Reports, Brief Article, Industrial equipment and supplies industry, Refuse disposal industry, Industrial equipment industry, Waste management industry, Incinerators, National Research Council

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Pollutant-specific scale of multimedia models and its implications for the potential dose

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Pollutant-specific model scales are expanded through the addition of atmospheric scale height. Accompanying charts and graphs provide additional statistical data.

Author: McKone, Thomas E., Hertwich, Edgar G.
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 2001
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Ecological Sciences, Statistical Data Included, Methods, Measurement, Science, Environmental sciences, Pollutants

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General formulation of characteristic travel distance for semivolatile organic chemicals in a multimedia environments

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Researchers from U.C. Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Osnabruck, Germany developed a method to measure the distance traveled by a semivolatile organic pollutant from a source region using tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin as case study.

Author: Matthies, Michael, McKone, Thomas E., Kastenberg, William E., Bennett, Deborah H.
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1998
Germany, Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing, Agricultural chemicals, not elsewhere classified, Dioxin, Research, Chemical industry, Dioxins, Pesticides industry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Osnabruck University of

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