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Transportation of hazardous wastes
Author(s) -
Allen David J.,
Wolkstein Melvin
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.680170112
Subject(s) - hazardous waste , risk assessment , waste management , risk analysis (engineering) , transport engineering , forensic engineering , environmental science , engineering , business , computer science , computer security
Risk assessments have been performed to determine the risk associated with the transportation of hazardous wastes through a city. In the course of these assessments, a number of modeling issues arose relating to transportation accident rates, the characterization of incidents, the effect of thermal radiation, the impact of exposure to toxic chemicals, and the threshold for acceptable risk. This paper discusses these issues.