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"1997 Findings and Recommendations: Report to The U.S. Congress and The Secretary of Energy." U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Arlington, VA, undated)

"A Fact Sheet on the Health Effects from Ionizing Radiation" (ANR459)(http://www.epa.gov/radiation/ionize2.htm). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation & Indoor Air, Radiation Protection Division (Washington, DC, June 1991)

A Reporter's Guide to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). National Safety Council, Environmental Health Center (Washington, DC, September 1997)

Accelerating Cleanup: Paths to Closure (DOE/EM-0342). U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management (Washington, DC, February 1998)

"ACHRE Report: How Do Scientists Determine the Long-Term Risks from Radiation?" (http://tisnt.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/intro_9_8.html). U.S. Department of Energy, Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (Washington, DC, June 11, 1996)

"Americans ambivalent on nuclear power use: Poll finds only 45% support it for energy." The Associated Press (Washington, DC, March 19, 1999)

"An Overview of Mixed Waste" (http://www.epa.gov/radiation/mixedwaste/mw_pg3.htm). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mixed Waste Team (Washington, DC, Feb. 6, 1998)

An SAB Report: Future Issues in Environmental Radiation (EPA-SAB-RAC-95-006). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science Advisory Board, Radiation Environmental Futures Subcommittee (Washington, DC, March 1995)

"Assessment of Health Effects from Exposure to Power-Line Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields: Working Group Report" (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/emfrapid/html/WGReport/doc.html). National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Washington, DC, June 1998)

"Background on 40 CFR Part 197: Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain." Capt.Raymond L. Clark, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (Washington, DC, undated)

"Chronology of Key Political and Policy Developments Regarding The Yucca Mountain Repository Program" (http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/yucca/chrono.htm). State of Nevada, Nuclear Waste Project Office (Carson City, NV, undated)

"A Citizen's Guide To Radon." U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, DC, September 1992)

"Clinically Observed Effects in Individuals Exposed to Radiation as a Result of the Chernobyl Accident" (http://www.iaea.or.at/world atom/thisweek/preview/chernobyl/paper1.html). International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna, Austria, undated)

Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom (DOE/EM-0266). U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management (Washington, DC, January 1996)

Committed to Results: DOE's Environmental Management Program (DOE/EM-0152P). U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management (Washington,DC, April 1994)

"Consumer's Guide to Radon Reduction." U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, DC, August 1992)

"Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants" (http://www.nei.org/pressrm/facts/infob17.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, February 1998)

"Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste" (http://www.nei.org/library/infob30.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, April 1998)

"Disposal of Naturally Occurring and Accelerator-Produced Radioactive Materials (NARM)." Radioactive Waste Disposal: An Environmental Perspective (EPA 402-K-94-001). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, Radiation Protection Division (Washington, DC, August 1994)

Electromagnetic Fields and Human Health. John E. Moulder, Ph.D., Professor of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, June 1998)

"EMFs' Biological Influences: Electromagnetic fields exert effects on and through hormones" (http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/1_10_98/bob1.htm). Janet Raloff, Science News Online (Washington, DC, January 10, 1998)

"Experts Critical of DOE Technical Report on Yucca Mountain" (http://www.nas.edu/onpi/pr/nov95/yucca.html). National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council (Washington, DC, November 30, 1995)

"Fact Sheet: Setting Environmental Standards For Yucca Mountain" (http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/yucca/factrev.htm). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, Radiation Protection Division (Washington, DC, January 21, 1998)

"Facts about Food Irradiation" (http://www.iaea.or.at:80/worldatom/inforesource/other/food/status.html). Food and Agricultural Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency and World Health Organization, International Consultative Group on Food Irradiation (Vienna, Austria, undated)

"Failure of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Whistleblowers are doing the NRC's job" (http://www.igc.apc.org/nrdc/bkgrd/nuusnrc.html). Natural Resources Defense Council (New York, NY, 1996)

"Food Irradiation" (http://www.acesag.auburn.edu/department/family/foodsafe/irrad.htm). W.T. Roberts and Jean Olds Weese, Auburn University (Auburn, AL, undated)

"Food Irradiation" (http://www.nei.org/pressrm/facts/infob34.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, 1998)

"Frequently Asked Questions about Mixed Waste" (http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/mixedwaste/mw_pg 17.htm). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mixed Waste Team (Washington, DC, December 8, 1998)

"Haste Makes Waste" (http://www.essential.org/orgs/FOE/scissors95/greenpart13.htm l). Friends of the Earth, Green Scissors Report (San Francisco, CA, undated)

"Hazard-Based Classification of Nuclear Waste - A Wiser Arrangement" (http://www.nonukes.org/w29hazl.htm). Ward A. Young, Nuclear Guardianship Forum, #3 (Spring 1994)

"Health and Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Production: Radioactivity in the Fernald Neighborhood" (http://www.ieer.org/ieer/sdafiles/vol_5/5-3/fern-res.html). Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Takoma Park, MD, March 1997)

"High-Level Nuclear Waste" (http://www.nei.org/library/infob31.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, June 1998)

"High-Level Waste: What will we do with used nuclear fuel?" Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, undated)

"Home Buyer's and Seller's Guide to Radon." U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, DC, July 2000)

"How Can We Face the Challenge? - Fifty Years at a Time" (http://www.nonukes.org/r05howca.htm). Molly Young Brown, Nuclear Guardianship Library (undated)

"How Do Radioactive Materials Move Through the Environment to People?" (RER-25) (http://www.ag.ohiostate.edu/~rer/rerhtml/rer_25.html). Ohio State University Extension Research (Columbus, OH, undated)

"Human Radiation Experiments." Interim Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (Washington, DC, October 21, 1994)

"International law and nuclear energy: Overview of the legal framework" (http://ecoluinfo.unige.ch/colloques/Chernobyl/Pages/Opelz.html). Mohamed Elbaradei, Edwin Nwogugu, and John Rames, International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna, Austria, undated)

"Ionizing Radiation Series No. 1" (ANR459) (http://www.epa.gov/radiation/ionize.htm). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation & Indoor Air, Radiation Protection Division (Washington, DC, September 1990)

"Ionizing Radiation-It's Everywhere!" Los Alamos Science, Number 23, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM, 1995)

"Irradiation in the Production, Processing and Handling of Food" (21 CFR Part 179). Federal Register, Vol. 62, No. 232, pp. 64101-64107, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration (Washington, DC, December 3, 1997)

"Irradiation: A Safe Measure for Safer Food" (http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1998/398_rad.html). FDA Consumer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Washington, DC, May-June 1998)

"Irradiation-An Overview of a Safe Alternative to Fumigation." U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (Washington, DC, October 1997)

"Issues Paper on Radiation Site Cleanup Regulations" (http://www.epa.gov/radiation/cleanup/html/issueppr.txt). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (Washington, DC, September 1993)

"Key Federal Laws and Regulations" (http://www.rw.doe.gov/pages/intro/96ar/ocrwm008.htm). U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (Washington, DC, 1996)

"Leukemia Clusters Near La Hague and Sellafield" (http://www.ieer.org/ieer/ensec/no-4/lahague.html). Anita Seth, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Takoma Park, MD, February 1998)

"Living with Radiation." National Geographic, Vol. 175, No. 4, pp. 402-437 (Washington, DC, April 1989)

"Low-Level Radioactive Waste Fact Sheets" (RER-00, -10, -12, -13, -14, -32, -33, -40, -41, -42, -43, -44, -45, -46, -47, -49, -50, -61, -65, and -66) (http://www.ag.ohiostate.edu/~rer/). Ohio State University Extension Research (Columbus, OH, undated)

"Low-Level Waste: What should we know about it?" Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, undated)

"Managing Used Fuel from Nuclear Power Plants" (http://www.nei.org/pressrm/briefs/usedfuel.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, February 1998)

"Medical and Industrial Uses of Radioactive Materials" (http://www.nei.org/pressrm/facts/infob35.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, February 1998)

"Medical Waste: Trojan Horse? 'Don't get hooked by medical arguments'" (http://www.nonukes.org/r07waste.htm) Wendy Oser, Nuclear Guardianship Forum, #3, (Spring 1994)

"Mixed Waste FAQ" (http://www.epa.gov/radiation/mixedwaste/mw_pg17.htm). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mixed Waste Team (Washington, DC, March 4, 1998)

"Nuclear Energy: Pros, Cons, and Prospects" (http://www.lehigh.edu/~ghh2/index.html). Kyle Kononowitz, Jared Hess, and Gregg Hilzer, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA, undated)

"Nuclear Power Plant Oversight: Industry and Government Roles" (http://www.nei.org/pressrm/facts/infob10.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington,DC, February 1998)

The Nuclear Waste Primer. League of Woman Voters Education Fund (Washington, DC, 1993)

"Orphaned Sources Initiative" (http://www.epa.gov/radiation/cleanmetals/orphan.htm). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, Radiation Protection Division (Washington, DC, undated)

"Plant Regulation" (http://www.nei.org/safe/reg.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, undated)

"Questions and Answers about EMF: Electric and Magnetic Fields Associated with the Use of Electric Power" (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/emf/emf.htm). National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Washington, DC, January 1995 (revised January 27, 1998))

"Questions and Answers about Nuclear Energy" (http://www.nuc.umr.edu/~ans/QA.html). University of Missouri-Rolla American Nuclear Society (Rolla, MO, undated)

"Radiation and Risk: A Hard Look at the Data." Los Alamos Science, Number 23, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM, 1995)

"Radiation Protection Today and Tomorrow: An Assessment of the Present Status and Future Perspectives of Radiation Protection" (http://www.nea.fr/html/rp/rp.html). Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Nuclear Energy Agency, Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health (Paris, France, 1993)

"Radiation Roulette" (http://www.newscientist.com/ns/971115/radiation.html). New Scientist (Great Britain, November 15, 1997)

"Radiation Standards and Organizations: A Historical Perspective" (http://www.nei.org/pressrm/facts/infob25.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, February 1998)

Radiation: Risks and Realities (EPA 402-K-92-004). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation (Washington, DC, August 1993)

"Radiation Waste: Too Hot to Handle? An Interview With Dr. Rustum Roy on How To Package Nuclear Waste" (http://www.nonukes.org/r27pack.htm). Francis Macy, Nuclear Guardianship Forum, Issue 2, (Spring 1993)

Radioactive Waste Disposal: An Environmental Perspective (EPA 402-K-94-001). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation & Indoor Air, Radiation Protection Division (Washington, DC, August 1994)

"Radioactive Waste: Production, Storage, Disposal" (NUREG/BR-0216). U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Washington, DC, July 1996)

"Radioactive Waste: Yucca Mountain May Be Unstable For Permanent Repository, Study Finds" (http://www.junkscience.com/news/yucca.htm). Bureau of National Affairs, Daily Environment Report (Washington, DC, March 30, 1998)

"Radionuclides (Uranium, Radium, and Radon)" (wysiwyg://42/http:www.epa.gov/ttn/uatw/hlthef/radionuc.html). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards (Washington, DC, May 26, 1998)

Ready to Respond (EPA 520/1-91-027). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation (Washington, DC, February 1992)

The Regulation and Use of Radioisotopes in Today's World (NUREG/BR-0217). U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Washington, DC, July 1996)

"Regulatory History of Mixed Waste" (http://www.epa.gov/radiation/mixedwaste/mw_pg4.htm). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mixed Waste Team (Washington, DC, April 9, 1998)

"Safety in Motion: Transportation of radioactive materials." Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, undated)

"Science for the Critical Masses: Radiation Doses" (http://www.ieer.org/ieer/ensec/no-4/dose-exp.html). Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Takoma Park, MD, February 1998)

"Science For The Critical Masses: Radiation Protection" (http://www.ieer.org/ieer/ensec/no-4/protec.html). Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Takoma Park, MD, February 1998)

"Science for the Critical Masses: Units of Radiation and Dose" (http://www.ieer.org/ieer/ensec/no-4/units.html). Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Takoma Park, MD, February 1998)

"Site Recommendation" (http://www.ymp.gov/timeline/sr/index.htm). U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (Washington, DC, undated)

"State or Federal Regulations: Which do I use?" (http://www.epa.gov/radiation/mixedwaste/mw_pg6.htm) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mixed Waste Team (Washington, DC, February 6, 1998)

"Static Electric and Magnetic Fields and Cancer FAQs" (http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/static-fields-cancer-FAQ/toc.html); and "Cellular Phone Antennas and Human Health" (http://mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/cellphone-health-FAQ/toc.html).

"Sustainable Development and Nuclear Power" (http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/inforesource/other/development/index.html). International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna, Austria, undated)

"The TMI 2 Accident: Its Impact, Its Lessons" (http://www.nei.org/pressrm/facts/infob19.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, April 1998)

"TIP:36-Biological Effects of Radiation" (http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/gmo/tip9836.htm). U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Washington, DC, undated)

"Transporting Radioactive Materials" (http://www.nei.org/pressrm/facts/infob32.htm). Nuclear Energy Institute (Washington, DC, April 1998)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Regulatory Program. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (Washington, DC, undated)

"Waste Disposal" (http://www.em.doe.gov/em30/wastdisp.html). U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Office of Waste Management (Washington, DC, April 14, 1998)

"What Are the Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation?" (RER-24); "How Are People Protected From Ionizing Radiation?" (RER-26) (http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~rer/rerhtml/rer_24.html and http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~rer/rerhtml/rer_26.html). Ohio State University Extension Research (Columbus, OH, undated)

"What Are the Sources of Ionizing Radiation?" (RER-22) (http://www.ag.ohiostate.edu/~rer/rerhtml/rer_22.html). Ohio State University Extension Research (Columbus, OH, undated)

"What Is Radioactive Material and How Does It Decay?" (RER-20); "What Is Ionizing Radiation?" (RER-21); "How is Ionizing Radiation Measured?" (RER-23) (http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~rer/rerhtml). Ohio State University Extension Research (Columbus, OH, undated)

"What Processes Use Radioactive Materials?" (RER-11) (http://www.ohioline.ag.ohiostate.edu/~rer/rerhtml/rer_11.html). Ohio State University Extension Research (Columbus, OH, undated)

"What We Know About Radiation." National Institutes of Health, Office of Communications (Washington, DC, April 11, 1994)

"White Paper: Research Needs for Nonionizing Radiation" (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ctwpnira.html ). National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, DC/Atlanta, GA, March 1998)




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