Too Hot to Touch : The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste
ISBN: 9781107030114 | 1107030110
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 1/7/2013
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Provides an engaging and authoritative account of the controversies and possibilities surrounding nuclear waste disposal in the US, with reference to other countries' approaches. Written in down-to-earth language, by an expert with key involvement in the Yucca Mountain project, this timely book will inform and stimulate discussion of nuclear issues.
Today, the issue of waste management is as prominent as reactor safety in the controversies surrounding nuclear power and is particularly topical in the US since the 20... MORE
Today, the issue of waste management is as prominent as reactor safety in the controversies surrounding nuclear power and is particularly topical in the US since the 20... MORE
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| List of units | |
| List of abbreviations | |
| The Problem | |
| The awakening | |
| Brainstorming | |
| The ocean as a dumping ground | |
| Radioactivity and atomic energy | |
| The Cold War legacy | |
| The peaceful atom and its wastes | |
| Recycling | |
| ... MORE | |
| Interim storage | |
| A can of worms | |
| WIPP | |
| The Mountain | |
| The search for a geologic repository | |
| Nevada wins the lottery | |
| The Nevada test site | |
| Yucca mountain | |
| How long is long? | |
| Leaving almost no stone unturned | |
| Surprise | |
| Shake and bake | |
| The project gets into hot water | |
| No Solution in Sight | |
| A new president, new policies | |
| Nuclear waste and our energy future | |
| Appendix:discussion questions | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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