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DOE sites not only are subject to radiological hazards, but also have the typical physical, chemical, and biological hazards associated with other sites. Although your site may seem unlikely to have radiological hazards, they can be found in more places than you might believe. Eor example, if your site manufactures chemicals or other items, or generates electricity, it likely has some form of radiological hazards. 

An emergency response plan should be developed in order to delineate how a facility responds to an emergency. The first aspect of the plan is an inventory of the chemical, physical, and biological hazards associated with the facility. The list could include the storage, use, or transportation of hazardous materials, hazardous wastes, and hazardous substances. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration... 

Because of recent events, the awareness of responders to biological hazards associated with weapons of mass destruction has increased. These biological agents are certainly a matter of concern, but other biological hazards exist that responders are more likely to encounter. These include poison plants, biting and stinging insects, reptiles, and infections of cuts and scrapes. Responders who... 

With the commercial development of nuclear reactors, the actinides have become important industrial elements. A major concern of the nuclear industry is the biological hazard associated with nuclear fuels and their wastes 2). In addition to their chemical toxicity, the high specific activity of alpha emission exhibited by the common isotopes of the transuranium elements make these elements potent carcinogens (3, b 9 5, 7). Unlike organic... 

Give a brief description of the biological hazards associated with radioactivily. 

Table 10.1 Potential non-biological hazards associated with freeze-drying equipment...

Biological hazards associated with Candiota coal field in Rio Grande do Sul, the southern state of Brazil, demonstrated an increase in DNA damage in Ctenomys torquatus, a subterranean rodent endemic in southern South America (Freitas and Lessa 1984), detectable by the Comet assay (Da Silva et al. 2000). 

The biological hazards associated with a homogeneous reactor are due chiefly to the radioactive rare earths, alkaline earths, and iodine [2]. The importance, as a biological hazard, of any one of these groups or nuclides within the group depends on assumptions made in describing exposure conditions however, contributes a major fraction of the radiation hazards for any set of conditions. While the accumulation of hazardous materials such as rare earths and alkaline earths will be controlled by the processing methods to be described, less is known about the chemistry of... 

Toxicity is the ability to cause biological injuiy. Toxicity is a property of all materials, even salt, sugar, and water. It is related to dose and the degree of hazard associated with a material. The amount of a dose is both time and duration dependent. Dose is a function of exposure (concentration) and duration and is sometimes expressed as dose = (concentration) X duration, where n can vaiy from 1 to 4. 

Each hazard is analyzed and documented as specifically as possible in this section. Specific job tasks and hazards associated with those tasks should also be included. If analytical information is available for site contaminants, it should be included. These typical hazards may also include physical, chemical, biological, and radiological, as discussed in the next sections. 

The biocompatibility and toxicological studies of CNTs have become a controversial hotspot. Although several reports showed that CNTs are non-toxic and could be used as in vivo multifunctional biological transporters (Kam et al., 2005), there is no doubt that the possible hazards associated with CNTs are significant, and that concern is valid the key to address the challenge is to clarify the range and mechanism of nanohazards of CNTs, and possible measurements to reduce CNTs toxicity. 

The purpose of this book is to introduce fibrous inorganic materials, their unique features, and their chemical and structural variety. This survey of fibrous materials, together with a summary of their health and biological effects, provides an opportunity to examine the current theories of disease induction and the hazards associated with exposure, not only to asbestos but to other inorganic fibers as well. 

The corrosion resistance imparted to tantalum by the passivating surface thermal oxide layer makes the metal inert to most hazards associated with metals. Tantalum is noncorrosive in biological systems and consequently has a no chronic health hazard MSDS rating. 

Laminar flow cabinets serve two purposes to protect the samples and to protect the worker and the environment. For most tissue culture applications sample protection is sufficient, but increasingly often we are becoming aware of hazards associated with biological samples and the cabinet to choose combines both aspects of protection. Such are the vertical laminar flow cabinets available, for example, from Flow Laboratories (Gelaire) or M.D.H. (Appendix 3). 

To evaluate the hazards associated with chemical exposure of non-humans, ecotoxicologists have historically relied on the contamination of short-term and long-term bioassays. A bioassay is a technique by which organisms, biological systems or biological processes are used to measure the effects of chemical exposure. 

There are certain potential health hazards associated with the handling of fibrous materials. These came to prominence when the health hazards associated with asbestos fiber came to light (see Chapter 6). We provide a summary of these. The following characteristics of fibers relate to potential biological activity ... 

In light of the primitive state of our knowledge of the biological effects of chemicals, it is prudent that aU the syntheses reported in this and other volumes of Inorganic Syntheses be conducted with rigorous care to avoid contact with all reactants, solvents, and products. The obvious hazards associated with these preparations have been delineated in each experimental procedure, but, at this point, it is impossible to foresee all possible sources of danger. 

PROBABLE FATE photolysis no data found on photolysis of beryllium oxidation not an important process hydrolysis soluble beryllium salts are hydrolyzed to form insoluble beryllium hydroxides volatilization airborne dusts are the most widely known hazard associated with beryllium sorption no data found on adsorption of beryllium biological processes only slightly bioaccumulated... 

The fourth method of detecting the presence of naturally-occurring enzyme inhibitors in biological materials is to combine extracts with a solution of the enzyme being tested. This is the most systematic way. The procedure may be no more than a series of test tubes, containing the enzyme, to which biological tissue extracts are added. There are some hazards associated with this method and additional experiments are required. 

Biological control of soil borne diseases is keenly being promoted by the government and agricultural industries in Japan. This is in part a response to public concern about hazards associated with chemical pesticides. Interest and research on the issue have increased this decade in Japan. Biological control has been studied for over 65 years, but few successes have been made in the commercial field. The following are the promising articles which will be adopted in the field in near future. 

The physical and health hazards associated with chemicals should be determined before working with them This determination may involve consulting literature references. Laboratory Chemical Safety Summaries (LCSSs), Matmal Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs), or other reference materials (see also Chapter 3, section 3.B) and may require discussions with the laboratory supervisor and consultants such as safety and industrial hygiene officers. Every step of the waste minimization and removal processes should be checked against federal, state, and local regulations. Production of mixed chemical-radioactive-biological waste (see Chapter 7, section 7.C.1.3) should not be considered without discussions with environmental health and safety experts. 

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