Occupational Safety and Health: Worker Safety in the Space and Science Industries
Propelled by the Cold War, research and testing of rocket motors and fuels flourished in the mid 1900s, exposing workers to the acute effects of toxic chemicals and the as yet unknown chronic and long term effects. Around the same time, experiments ...
Subject: plutonium
Transcript: numbers of deaths as a result of cancer. It's no surprise, if you're exposed to Plutonium and uranium, That cancer would be the result. When i first started
Waste, Part II: Hazardous Waste from Atomic Weapons
In the desert of New Mexico a half mile beneath the surface of the earth in a salt mine judged to be 250 million years old, a permanent disposal site is sought for the wastes from decommissioned atomic weapons facilities.
Subject: plutonium
Transcript: the half-life of plutonium is 24,000 years. early attempts to dump the waste at sea, where many drums imploded or decayed, put the marine environment