The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has developed fifteen national planning scenarios around which individual facilities, communities, states, and federal authorities are to develop response plans. These national planning scenarios include a variety of all-hazards type incidents ranging from hurricanes to earthquakes to nuclear power plant accidents. A key element of most of these national planning scenarios is the potentially massive quantities of waste that must be managed during the response to these incidents. This paper will describe the types and quantities of wastes that will be generated during the response activities following these incidents, and the crucial role that thermal treatment and combustion will have in dealing with those wastes.
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