THE ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR OF TRANSURANIC NUCLIDES 

 LEAKED FROM WATER-COOLED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS 



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Pursuit of this approach has led us to study a substantial 

 number of releases of artificial radionuclides, ranging 

 from worldwide and close-in fallout from nuclear weapons 

 tests, the liquid effluent releases from fuel reprocessing 

 plants in Great Britain, France, and the USA, leakage from 

 solid waste containers dumped at sea, to the discharges 

 from water-cooled nuclear reactors used for electrical 

 power production. In this last project, we have been sup- 

 ported partly by the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

 and it is this work we are reporting here 



