Radioact Metadata

Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) generated the 16 radioactive waste sites based on data obtained from radioactive waste information published in the United States General Accounting Office Report on Nuclear Health and Safety: Sites Used for Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Alaska, July 1994 (GAO/RCED-94-130FS).


Latitude-Longitude locations input (generate file) for Radioact Dataset
1 -165.7440 68.1150 Cape Thompson/Project Chariot
2 -145.7225 63.9800 Jarvis Creek/Fort Greely
3 -145.7225 63.9800 Injection Wells/Fort Greely
4 -145.7225 63.9800 Power Reactor/Fort Greely
5 -149.8681 61.2317 Ft. Richardson
6 -149.8242 61.2458 Elmendorf AFB
7 -149.1870 64.3440 Clear AFB
8 -147.0789 64.6703 Eielson AFB
9 -156.4811 71.3875 Point Barrow/Naval Arctic Research Lab
10 178.9833 51.5422 Amchitka Island
11 -139.1922 52.9070 Pacific Ocean Southeast of Sitka/Boeing Aircraft
12 -147.8219 64.8694 Fairbanks/University of Alaska
13 -151.3211 60.7315 Kenai Peninsula/Oil Industry
14 -148.4782 70.2442 North Slope/Oil Industry
15 -151.7710 60.9510 Trading Bay -- Cook Inlet/Oil Industry
16 -147.6280 64.2370 CAIS Disposal/Fort Wainwright

COORDINATE SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

Projection ALBERS
Units METERS
Spheroid CLARKE1866
Parameters:

1st standard parallel 55 0 0.000
2nd standard parallel 65 0 0.000
central meridian -154 0 0.00
latitude of projection's origin 50 0 0.000
false easting (meters) 0.00000
false northing (meters) 0.00000

Items Definitions for SUPRFUND:
COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC
1 AREA 4 12 F 3
5 PERIMETER 4 12 F 3
9 SUPRFUND# 4 5 B -
13 SUPRFUND-ID 4 5 B -

Processing History:

Date Time User Command

-------- ----- ------- ------------------------

03/30/97 22:05 sharon generate radioact
03/30/97 22:05 sharon build radioact point
03/30/97 22:06 sharon rename radioact radioact_dd
03/30/97 22:06 sharon project cover radioact_dd radioact $PRJ/ddnq2alb.prj
03/30/97 22:07 sharon build radioact point
04/05/97 16:53 sharon ARCEDIT /DB/GPEACE/COVERS/RADIOACT
04/05/97 17:05 sharon build radioact point
04/05/97 17:06 sharon addxy radioact
04/05/97 17:54 sharon ARCEDIT /DB/GPEACE/COVERS/RADIOACT
04/05/97 18:24 sharon build radioact point
04/05/97 18:24 sharon addxy radioact


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