materials that are conteminated with lead or
with mercury whereas, with materials that are
contaminated by uranium we have, we feel, a
very great responsibility,
So that, until a
careful definition of what the hazards are is
arrived at, we are going to have a lot of exe
pense in disposing of materials of all types.
One type of material that is genere
ated in tremendous quantity 19 simple, burn
able, low level, contaminated waste material
from laboratories,
This is Kleenex, absorbent paper
and just cover paper and various laboratory
grdgets, like clothing, thet is gloves and
cover clothing and wood materials, rubber
materials and in every laboratory oreration
these are generated in very large quantities
and at relstively low levels of activity.
“4.7. * We were more or less pushed
into a position of evaluating the necessity
for this, by one of the operations wanting
to use the Lake Ontario storage area as a
disposal dump for thie material.
They baled all of their burnable
materials and put them in cratea about 500
pounds to the crate and shipéd them’a relatively
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