Comments on a Critique of GAO's Radioactive Waste Ocean Dumping Report

RCED-83-45 Published: Dec 17, 1982. Publicly Released: Jan 19, 1983.

Highlights

GAO was asked to review a critique which disagreed with the overall conclusions of a GAO report on the hazards of past low-level radioactive waste ocean dumping. The report concluded that those concerns have been overemphasized and that monitoring past dump sites is of limited value in developing future ocean-dumping regulations.

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