Defense high-level

Defense high-level wastes are those produced as a result of military research during the recovery of the uranium and plutonium used in making fission and fusion bombs. 

DOE (1985a). U.S. Department of Energy. An Evaluation of Commercial Repository Capacity for the Disposal of Defense High-Level Waste, DOE/ DP-0020 (National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia). 

Final Environmental Impact Statement Disposal of Hanford Defense High-Level, Transuranic and Tank Wastes, Report DOE/EIS-0113 (Vol. 2 of 5), Appendix A, U.S. Department of Energy, Dec. 1987. 

Recently, EPA issued its environmental standards for the potential waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Iodine-129 is one of the more important radionuclides of concern in the large inventory of spent reactor fuel and defense high-level waste. This standard limits the radiation exposure of individuals, and radionuclide concentrations in ground water from the release of I-129 and other radionuclides in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain. 

AEC 180/13 (20 Sept. 1960), AEC/NRC A. R. Luedecke to James T. Ramey, 15 June 1959, General Correspondence (Waste Disposal), R. L. Kirk to James T. Ramey, 21 Mar. 1961 (Conunittee Members—Holifield, Chet), JCAE Papers Hewlett, "Federal Policy for the Disposal of Highly Radioactive Wastes," pp. 7-9 Defense High-Level Radioactive Waste Hanford Reservations, pp. 2-7 JCAE, "202" Hearings, 88th Cong., 1st sess., 1963, p. 650 Shapiro, Radwaste, pp. 50-51, 60-61. 

Spent fuel and defense high-level waste in surface storage until decision made regarding disposah Includes scrap from decommissioned facilities. 

Classification of wastes may be according to purpose, distinguishing between defense waste related to military appHcations, and commercial waste related to civiUan appHcations. Classification may also be by the type of waste, ie, mill tailings, high level radioactive waste (HLW), spent fuel, low level radioactive waste (LLW), or transuranic waste (TRU). Alternatively, the radionucHdes and the degree of radioactivity can define the waste. Surveys of nuclear waste management (1,2) and more technical information (3—5) are available. 

Specific immunity is a highly sophisticated defense mechanism of higher organisms. A high level of... 

Kantak and Miczek 1986). Amphetamine and cocaine, as well as dopaminergic agonists, increase further the already high levels of defensive responses in aggregated rats undergoing withdrawal from opiates, leading in extreme cases to the death of the subjects (Lai et al. 1971 Puri and Lai 1973). 

Mark Phillips openly admits to his involvement in some aspects of mind control research with the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta, Georgia, in the late 1960 s. Debunkers may automatically cry he is some kind of misinformation specialist because of this, but there is more to consider. There are many sub-contractors to the Department of Defense (DOD) in mind control research and Phillips is another one of them with a high level clearance. Perhaps we should listen first and judge later. 

The ability to respond so rapidly should be advantageous when herbivoregrazing is intense but extremely variable over short periods of time. The defense on demand could thus result in high levels of the defensive metabolites halimedatrial (50) and the unstable epihalimedatrial (51) only in the presence of actively feeding herbivores. Since grazing was also reduced significantly more by purified halimedatrial (50) than by halimedatetraacetate (48) this reaction fulfills all three criteria defined for a wound-activated defense (see above). 

Some animals process plants to reduce defense compounds even before eating. The meadow vole M. pennsylvanicus cuts winter branches of white spruce, Norway spruce, white pine, and Norway pine and leaves them on the snow for 2-3 days before eating them. This reduces the levels of condensed tannins and other phenolics by one half, to their summer levels. A high level of protein 12%) and reduced phenolics (1.5% of dry matter) now render the food acceptable. It is not clear how the phenolics are being lost, possibly by polymerization or oxidation (Roy and Bergeron, 1990b). 

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