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waste produced in a city, the disposition of the liquid and solid radio-

active waste resulting from reclamation lends itself readily to a

sanitary engineering analysis. The analysis was performed by Dr. E. A.
Pearson, Sanitary Engineering Consultant, and is reported herein.

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St. Louis, Missouri,a typical inland industrial city, was
selected for study as a hypothetical RW target area in order to illustrate
the applicetion of the waste-disposal principles developed in the general
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The waste disposal problems encountered in the recovery of a
contaminated area are closely dependent upon the reclamation procedures
used.

Therefore, a detailed analysis is presented of the logistics of

recovery for St. Louis, based on the given characteristics of the agent and

its dispersion, as a prerequisite to consideration of the disposal of radio-

active waste produced during the recovery operations.

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The land usage in St. Louis has been analyzed, and the tracts of

the entire city classified into types corresponding to six typical districts.
The area, population density, proportidénal roof and road coverage, and other

pertinent characteristics of the area have been calculated.
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Other factors affecting recovery planning include the strategic

value of the facilities within the assumed target area, the radiation level
distribution, the human and material resources available for recovery work,
and the reccvery methods and their applicability.
cussed and evaluated with reference to St. Louis.

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These factors are dis-

Each of the typical districts is analyzed in detail, and a

composite representative area (one city block or more) is synthesized for
each district.
The detailed logistics of decontamination, by a variety

of methods, of each representative area are calculated, and the results

applied to 1-sq mi areas of their respective typical districts.
Similarly,
& detailed computation is made of the radiation levels throughout each
representative area, and of the doses received by various reclamation

workers cleaning up 1-sq mi areas of each typical district.

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The results were applied, in turn, to five probable target areas
within the city and the manpower and equipment requirements, the doses
received, and the liquid and solid wastes produced are calculated for the
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average target area.

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This report also appears under Contract DA-18-108-CML-3456,

March 1962.

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