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A Proposed Public Health and Safety StandardforYucca Mountain, A Report prepared for the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards, EPRI TV-104012, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif., Dec. 1994. 

In recent years, several guidelines and handbooks have been produced to help e.xplain approaches for doing health risk assessments. As discussed by a special National Academy of Sciences committee convened in 1983, most... 

We have included in this volume two chapters specifically related to society s kinetic system. We have asked James Wei of the University of Delaware, recent Chairman of the consultant panel on Catalyst Systems for the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Motor Vehicle Emissions, to illustrate key problems and bridges between the catalytic science and the practical objectives of minimizing automobile exhaust emissions. We have also asked for a portrayal of the hard economic facts that constrain and guide what properties in a catalyst are useful to the catalytic practitioner. For this we have turned to Duncan S. Davies, General Manager of Research and Development, and John Dewing, Research Specialist in Heterogeneous Catalysts, both from Imperial Chemical Industries Limited. 

National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation. A Report to the Public on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation. Washington, DC National Research Council, 1960. 

NAS. 1980. Lead in the human environment. Washington DC National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Lead in the Human Environment. 

National Academy of Sciences Committee (on the Science of Climate Change), Climate Change Science, An Analysis of Some Key Questions, National Academy Press, Washington, 2001. 

A National Academy of Sciences committee estimated that the transition to a hydrogen economy could take decades, since tough challenges remain. These include how to produce, store and distribute hydrogen in adequate quantities and at reasonable costs without releasing greenhouse gases. 

However, this is not a recent development. A 1971 report of the Marine Chemistry Panel of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography wrote that ... 

NAS (1994) Alternatives for groundwater cleanup. Report of the National Academy of Science Committee on Groundwater Cleanup Alternatives. National Academy Press, Washington DC... 

Finally, keep in mind that scientists must maintain high standards in conducting and reporting their findings. The following statements are excerpted from the 1989 report, entitled On Being a Scientist, published by the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Conduct of Science ... 

Based in part upon this pioneering research, a National Academy of Sciences Committee suggested in their 1972 document Particulate Polycyclic Organic Matter that photolysis, photooxidations, and gas-particle interactions might lead to significant degradation of PAHs in ambient particles and formation of products more polar than the parent PAHs (NRC, 1972). 

Vapor (Gas) Irritant Characteristics — Since MSDSs often provide non-qualifying statements, the most appropriate of five statements listed below is given. (Source National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Hazardous Materials, "Evaluation of the Hazard of Bulk Water Transportation of Industrial Chemicals, A Tentative Guide," Washington, D.C., 1970.)... 

My own experience in dealing with hazardous wastes dates back to 1982, when I sat on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Hazardous Substances in the Laboratory. This group met every three months over a two-year period and summarized its findings in Prudent Practices for the Disposal of Chemicals from Laboratories. This book is considered an authoritative reference on the disposal of laboratory waste, and many of its procedures are included in this text. 

NAS (National Academy of Sciences), Committee on Biological Markers of the National Research Council, Environmental Health Perspectives, 74(3) (1987). 

Kendall, R.J. 1991. Ecological risk assessment for terrestrial wildlife exposed to agrochemicals a state-of-the-art review and recommendations for the future. Presented at the Ecological Risk Assessment Workshop sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology, February 26-March 1,1991. 

Marrs et al. (1996) and Sidell (1996) have provided an extensive overview of human smdies of nerve agent exposures conducted by the US and the UK military as well as accidental exposures that occurred at production or test facilities. Although this report does not come to any conclusions about long-term effects, there is no indication that asymptomatic exposures to nerve agents have produced long-term, adverse health effects. This is the same conclusion reached by the National Academy of Sciences, committee that reviewed the then available literamre, to include the EEG smdies of Burchfield et al. (1976) and Duffy et al. (1979). They stated that while there may be subtle... 

National Academy of Science, Committee on Toxicology. 1982. Possible long-term health effects of short-term exposure to chemical agents. Vol 1 anticholinesterases and anticholinergics. Prepared by Panel on Anticholinesterase Chemicals, Panel on Anticholinergic Chemicals, Committee on Toxicology, National Academy of Science, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 

National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Tox. Nat. Res. Council. Principles and procedures for evaluating the toxicity of household substances. Prepared for the Consumer Prod. Safety Commission. Committee for the Revision of NAS. Publication 1138, pp. 1-9 86-98 (1977). 

National Academy of Sciences Committee Saccharin Report... 

National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences, National Research Council, Diet, nutrition, and cancer. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1982. 

Moore MR, Meredith PA, Campbell BC, Goldberg A, Pocock SJ (1977) Contribution of lead in drinking water to blood lead. Lancet ii 661-662 Moore MR, Goldberg A, Pocock SJ, Meredith PA, Stewart IM, Lees R, Low RA (1982) Some studies of maternal and infant lead exposure in Glasgow. Scott Med J (in press) Mykkanen HM, Dickerson JWT, Lancaster MC (1979) Effect of age on the tissue distribution of lead in the rat. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 51 447-454 National Academy of Sciences. Committee on Biological Effects of Atmospheric Pollutants (1972) Lead Airborne Lead in Perspective, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC... 

National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Research in the Life Sciences of the Committee on Science and Public Policy, The Life Sciences Recent Progress and Application to Human Affairs The World of Biological Research Requirements for the Future, 1970. 

In April 1950 at the Detroit meeting of the American Chemical Society, a group of chemists and physicists discussed the inadequacies of valence theory and what might be done to improve it. The most pressing need was that of a table of the difficult integrals in valence calculations. By the end of the year, Mulliken was asking D. A. Macinnes of the Rockefeller Institute, who was chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Scientific Conferences, whether it would be possible to prepare a conference on "Quantum Mechanical Methods in Valence Theory and Molecular Structure." ... 

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