United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1994-07-06 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:RCED-94-130FS https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-130FS P0b002ee18037924c f:rc94130f DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-130FS machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-130FS RCED-94-130FS Radioactive waste disposal Nuclear waste management Nuclear facility safety Nuclear waste storage Radioactive wastes Safety regulation Energy research Nuclear radiation monitoring Environmental monitoring Radioactive pollution AEC Project Chariot Alaska Amchitka Island (AK) Hanford (WA) North Slope (AK) Cook Inlet (AK) Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (AK) DOD Environmental Restoration Program Fact Sheet RCED GAO's review of available information on Project Chariot--an experiment conducted in the 1960s by the former Atomic Energy Commission in which radioactive waste was buried in Alaska--suggests that the amount of radioactive material at the site is not harmful to humans. GAO also identified six Army and Air Force installation in Alaska where radioactive materials had either been disposed of or stored on-site. These radioactive materials involved such items as nuclear power reactor cooling water and smoke detectors. In addition, the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory was used by various institutions for research that included the use of radioactive tracers. Amchitka Island, where underground nuclear tests were done from 1965 to 1971, is being monitored by the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency. The Army Corps of Engineers must still determine whether 138 defense facilities no longer owned by the federal government are contaminated by hazardous or radioactive materials and whether remedial action is required. Sites at five other nonfederal facilities that disposed of or stored radioactive materials were also brought to GAO's attention. These involved (1) storage of pipe contaminated with radioactive material resulting from oil drilling and (2) land and ocean disposal of radioactive waste resulting from university research and aircraft manufacturing. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-130FS/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-130FS.htm GAO/RCED-94-130FS https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-94-130FS Fact Sheet GAO/RCED-94-130FS; Nuclear Health and Safety: Sites Used for Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Alaska; Radioactive waste disposal Nuclear waste management Nuclear facility safety Nuclear waste storage Radioactive wastes Safety regulation Energy research Nuclear radiation monitoring Environmental monitoring Radioactive pollution AEC Project Chariot Alaska Amchitka Island (AK) Hanford (WA) North Slope (AK) Cook Inlet (AK) Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (AK) DOD Environmental Restoration Program