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Radiation and Health: Waste Management Section

Protecting people today and a thousand years from now.

The Office of Radiation Protection?s Waste Management Section views its role as protecting people today and a thousand years from now.

?We take on the projects that take a long time to complete,? said Kristen Schwab, the Waste Management Section Supervisor. ?We work on the big and complex closure projects and oversee the processing and disposal of radioactive waste in Washington state.?

This year, we are sharing how the Department of Health?s Office of Radiation Protection helps keep all people in Washington, and our environment, safe and healthy. Earlier,?we examined the X-ray Section?and the?Radioactive Materials Section. Today, we look inside the Office of Radiation Protection?s Waste Management Section.

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