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  • Thumbnail for Radioactive waste
    Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear...
    112 KB (12,829 words) - 20:34, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pollutant
    A pollutant or novel entity is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of...
    11 KB (1,213 words) - 07:40, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air pollution
    Air pollution (redirect from Air pollutant)
    tobacco. Radioactive pollutants: Produced by nuclear explosions, nuclear events, war explosives, and natural processes such as the radioactive decay of...
    230 KB (23,437 words) - 22:39, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radioactive contamination
    Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids...
    35 KB (4,072 words) - 05:01, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Water pollution
    nuclear reactors, or disposal of radioactive waste. Some industrial discharges include persistent organic pollutants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl...
    58 KB (8,388 words) - 14:25, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Persistent organic pollutant
    Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. They...
    41 KB (5,483 words) - 00:31, 10 July 2024
  • A radionuclide (radioactive nuclide, radioisotope or radioactive isotope) is a nuclide that has excess numbers of either neutrons or protons, giving it...
    31 KB (2,660 words) - 14:00, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radiation
    dating. Environmental scientists use radioactive atoms, known as tracer atoms, to identify the pathways taken by pollutants through the environment. Radiation...
    47 KB (6,152 words) - 12:32, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear fallout
    Nuclear fallout is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of...
    81 KB (9,592 words) - 15:25, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pollution
    liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies...
    74 KB (8,629 words) - 01:47, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legacy pollution
    Legacy pollution or legacy pollutants are persistent materials in the environment that were created through a polluting industry or process that have polluting...
    37 KB (5,169 words) - 01:24, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Acute radiation syndrome
    transfusions, antibiotics, colony-stimulating factors, or stem cell transplant. Radioactive material remaining on the skin or in the stomach should be removed. If...
    65 KB (6,783 words) - 04:50, 29 June 2024
  • The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) are air pollution standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection...
    15 KB (772 words) - 16:43, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air quality index
    Air Pollution Index, and Singapore's Pollutant Standards Index. Computation of the AQI requires an air pollutant concentration over a specified averaging...
    65 KB (5,229 words) - 13:57, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
    Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed on 22 May 2001 in Stockholm and effective from 17...
    33 KB (2,128 words) - 02:20, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fracking
    the potential public health impacts of exposures to chemical and radioactive pollutants as a result of shale gas extraction in the UK, based on the examination...
    153 KB (15,859 words) - 11:08, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for PUREX
    PUREX (category Radioactive waste)
    resulting in the radioactive contamination of groundwater. Greenpeace measurements in La Hague and Sellafield indicated that radioactive pollutants are steadily...
    13 KB (1,185 words) - 06:41, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atmospheric dispersion modeling
    that govern the pollutant dispersion. The dispersion models are used to estimate the downwind ambient concentration of air pollutants or toxins emitted...
    33 KB (3,661 words) - 09:28, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indoor air quality
    impaired learning in schools. Common pollutants of indoor air include: secondhand tobacco smoke, air pollutants from indoor combustion, radon, molds and...
    97 KB (10,251 words) - 11:05, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Industrial wastewater treatment
    nuclear reactors, or disposal of radioactive waste. Some industrial discharges include persistent organic pollutants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl...
    57 KB (7,208 words) - 21:25, 27 March 2024
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