airborne release

The amount of airborne release is below regulatory limits, officials said.

Given the right conditions, an airborne release of anthrax over a city could kill as many as 100,000 people.

But even at this stage you wouldn't get much in the way of airborne releases of radioactive material."

The principal source of airborne releases of toluene is solvent uses, accounting for an estimated 51% of total releases.

• Where there is a danger of airborne release of possibly hazardous materials, evacuees should be positioned upwind from the site of the incident.

The primary piece of federal legislation governing the airborne release of mercury in the United States is the Clean Air Act.

Most of these airborne releases were a part of Hanford's routine operations, while a few of the larger releases occurred in isolated incidents.

Slipshod abatement practices, random demolition, even the natural aging process of building materials can cause the airborne release of millions of microscopic asbestos fibers.

More detailed measurements of contaminant levels in various environmental media should be done if decontamination tests are required or if airborne releases are expected from vents of process equipment.

In the United States, the Departments of Defense and Energy maintain large facilities and cadres of specialists for tracking airborne releases of radiation, both civilian and military.

But Tri-Valley CAREs points to a long list of tritium accidents and airborne releases from Livermore facilities, which have caused radioactive material to accumulate in Livermore’s water, food, honey and wine.

If process conditions vary to the extent of causing airborne release of regulated contaminants in levels greater than those defined by the performance standards, mandatory automatic process control systems should interrupt the waste feed or shut down the process.

WASHINGTON - A decade ago, then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge oversaw the start of BioWatch, the nationwide system designed to detect airborne releases of anthrax or other biological weapons.

The new estimates of airborne releases of uranium were made in a report released here today by Dr. Arjun Makhijani and Bernd Franke of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, Md.

In 1994, Scott Cole & Associates represented more than 1,000 employees and residents near the Unocal plant in San Francisco, California in a case against Unocal Corporation for the airborne release of more than 100 tons of toxic substances.

If the 9/11 attack had involved an airborne release of smallpox or anthrax, Dr. Redlener said, or if a plane had hit a nuclear reactor near New York, like Indian Point, officials might have needed to tell people to stay home and deliver medicine to them.

We are further exploring the meteorological data, but at this stage, we consider there to be a negligible combined likelihood that there was an airborne release from the IAH or the Merial sites which was subsequently transferred to the first affected farm between the 14 and 25 July 2007.

CMC will work with Health Canada and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited to use state-of-the-art techniques in precipitation forecasting to predict timing, location and amounts of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear material deposited on the ground in the event of an airborne release (by 2006-2007).

He was referring to New York City officials' desire for more detectors and enhanced capabilities under a federal government program known as BioWatch, under which air samplers were installed in 2003 in more than 30 major U.S. cities to detect the airborne release of biological warfare agents such as anthrax, plague and smallpox.