Hazardous Waste
This agency has jurisdiction over both solid & hazardous waste programs
What is the EPA?
The effect of offspring being exposed to radiation while in development
What are progenic effects?
True or false; hazardous waste is not a subset of solid waste
What is false?
This act gives the EPA authority to establish framework for solid & hazardous waste management. Was enacted in 1976.
What is the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)?
This person is the SCHD's director (first and last name)
Who is Dennis Worsham?
The 2 types of hazardous waste
What are:
Characteristic hazardous wastes
&
Listed hazardous wastes?
The 2 broad classifications of radioactive waste
What are:
High-level waste – primarily spent fuel removed from reactors after producing electricity
Low-level waste – comes from reactor operations and from academic. Industrial and other commercial uses?
True or false; sludge is a type of solid waste
What is true?
The two major programs that comprise the RCRA.
What are
Subtitle D, the solid waste program
&
Subtitle C, the hazardous waste program?
This is the address of SCHD (full address)
What is 3020 Rucker Ave Everett, WA 98201?
These wastes are from common manufacturing & industrial processes. The processes that generate them typically produce wastes with properties of corrosivity, ignitability, and toxcicity
What are listed hazardous wastes?
*DAILY DOUBLE*
This is how radon is produced
What is by the natural decay of uranium?
This is the thickness of a particular shield that reduces the radiation exposure in half
What is the half value layer?
Regulates the storage and disposal of all commercially generated radioactive wastes in the US, as well as high-level waste at department of energy facilities
What is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)?
This is SCHD's general phone number
What is 425-339-5200?
The 4 typical properties of hazardous wastes
What are corrosivity, ignitability, reactivity, and toxicity?
Any of these protect you from both beta & x-rays
What are plastic, glass, and aluminum?
Any of these would be suggested shields to use against beta particles
What are plastic, aluminum and glass?
Enacted by congress in 1980 to address cleanup of inactive/abandoned hazardous waste "orphan sites"
What is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)?
These are the 3 sections of SCHD
What are Environmental Health, Prevention Services, and Administration?
The 5 steps of "cradle to grave" process for hazardous waste
What is
1. generation
2. transportation
3. treatment
4. storage
5. disposal?
General summary of the inverse square law for measuring radiation at different distances
What is the intensity of radiation you're exposed to is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source? Aka the further distance you're away is not directly proportional to the amount of radiation you're exposed to?
Name 5 types of radiation
What are any of the following:
Alpha particles, beta particles, neutrons, gamma rays, x-rays
others that are technically acceptable:
other types of electromagnetic radiation such as microwaves, radio waves, visible light, UV, etc.?
Curie (Ci) measures this specifically (be specific)
What is radioactivity, the number of disintegrations per second?
The year the Snohomish Health District was founded
What is 1959?