Hazardous Waste
Radiation
Solid Waste + Radiation cont.
Acronyms/Terms
Random Health Department Trivia
100

This agency has jurisdiction over both solid & hazardous waste programs

What is the EPA?

100

The effect of offspring being exposed to radiation while in development

What are progenic effects?

100

True or false; hazardous waste is not a subset of solid waste

What is false?

100

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)?

100

This person is the SCHD's director (first and last name)

Who is Dennis Worsham?

200

The 2 types of hazardous waste

What are:

Characteristic hazardous wastes

&

Listed hazardous wastes?

200

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?

200

True or false; sludge is a type of solid waste

What is true?

200

The two major programs that comprise the RCRA.

What are

Subtitle D, the solid waste program 

&

Subtitle C, the hazardous waste program?

200

This is the address of SCHD (full address)

What is 3020 Rucker Ave Everett, WA 98201?

300

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?

300

*DAILY DOUBLE*

This is how radon is produced

What is by the natural decay of uranium?

300

This is the thickness of a particular shield that reduces the radiation exposure in half

What is the half value layer?

300

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)?

300

This is SCHD's general phone number

What is 425-339-5200?

400

The 4 typical properties of hazardous wastes

What are corrosivity, ignitability, reactivity, and toxicity?

400

Any of these protect you from both beta & x-rays

What are plastic, glass, and aluminum?

400

Any of these would be suggested shields to use against beta particles

What are plastic, aluminum and glass?

400

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)?

400

These are the 3 sections of SCHD

What are Environmental Health, Prevention Services, and Administration?

500

The 5 steps of "cradle to grave" process for hazardous waste

What is

1. generation

2. transportation

3. treatment

4. storage

5. disposal?

500

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?

500

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.?

500

Curie (Ci) measures this specifically (be specific)

What is radioactivity, the number of disintegrations per second?

500

The year the Snohomish Health District was founded

What is 1959?