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| Author | : Allison Macfarlane |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0262633329 |
Experts from science, industry, and government discuss the unresolved scientific and technical issues surrounding the Yucca Mountain site as a geologic repository for high-level nuclear waste.
| Author | : William M. Alley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1107030110 |
A fascinating and authoritative account of the controversies and possibilities surrounding nuclear waste disposal, providing expert discussion in down-to-earth language.
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 1995-07-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0309176336 |
The United States currently has no place to dispose of the high-level radioactive waste resulting from the production of the nuclear weapons and the operation of nuclear electronic power plants. The only option under formal consideration at this time is to place the waste in an underground geologic repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. However, there is strong public debate about whether such a repository could protect humans from the radioactive waste that will be dangerous for many thousands of years. This book shows the extent to which our scientific knowledge can guide the federal government in developing a standard to protect the health of the public from wastes in such a repository at Yucca Mountain. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is required to use the recommendations presented in this book as it develops its standard.
| Author | : John D'Agata |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2011-02-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0393076695 |
Named One of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books Written by the New York Times Magazine, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and a New York Times Editors' Choice. When John D'Agata helps his mother move to Las Vegas one summer, he begins to follow a story about the federal government's plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain; the result is a startling portrait that compels a reexamination of the future of human life.
| Author | : J. Samuel Walker |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2009-09-02 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780520260450 |
In The Road to Yucca Mountain, J. Samuel Walker traces the U.S. government's tangled efforts to solve the technical and political problems associated with radioactive waste. From the Manhattan Project through the designation in 1987 of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a high-level waste repository, Walker thoroughly investigates the approaches adopted by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He explains the growing criticism of the AEC's waste programs, such as the AEC's embarrassing failure in its first serious effort to build a high-level waste repository in a Kansas salt mine. Clearly and accessibly, Walker explains the issues surrounding deep geological disposal and surface storage of high-level waste and spent reactor fuel. He analyzes the equally complex and divisive question of fuel “reprocessing.” He weaves reliable research with fresh insights about nuclear science, geology, politics, and public administration, making this original and authoritative account an essential guide for understanding the continuing controversy over an illusive and emotional topic.
| Author | : Thomas C. Hanks |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Radioactive waste disposal in the ground |
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| Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Government publications |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Michael D. Voegele |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Radioactive waste disposal in the ground |
| ISBN | : 9781878138095 |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Radioactive waste repositories |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2001-07-05 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0309073170 |
Focused attention by world leaders is needed to address the substantial challenges posed by disposal of spent nuclear fuel from reactors and high-level radioactive waste from processing such fuel. The biggest challenges in achieving safe and secure storage and permanent waste disposal are societal, although technical challenges remain. Disposition of radioactive wastes in a deep geological repository is a sound approach as long as it progresses through a stepwise decision-making process that takes advantage of technical advances, public participation, and international cooperation. Written for concerned citizens as well as policymakers, this book was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and waste management organizations in eight other countries.
