Waste of a Mountain
Author: Michael D. Voegele
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781878138095
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Uncertainty Underground
Author: Allison Macfarlane
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 0262633329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExperts 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.
Yucca Mountain Project
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce and Agency Organization
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKToo Hot to Touch
Author: William M. Alley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1107030110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating and authoritative account of the controversies and possibilities surrounding nuclear waste disposal, providing expert discussion in down-to-earth language.
The Road to Yucca Mountain
Author: J. Samuel Walker
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009-09-02
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780520260450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1995-07-28
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0309176336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Yucca Mountain as a Radioactive-waste Repository
Author: Thomas C. Hanks
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStatus of the Yucca Mountain Project
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKClosing Yucca Mountain
Author: Todd Garvey
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2011-05
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1437983162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPassed in 1982, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) was an effort to establish an explicit statutory basis for the Dept. of Energy (DoE) to dispose of the nation's most highly radioactive nuclear waste. The NWPA requires DoE to remove spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants and transport it to a permanent geologic repository. In 1987, Congress designated Yucca Mountain, NV (YM), as the repository. Contents of this report: Intro.; Establishing a Permanent Geologic Repository for High-Level Nuclear Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel; YM and the Obama Admin.; Blue Ribbon Comm. on America's Nuclear Future; Withdrawal of the YM Construction License; NRC Halts YM License Review; The Future of YM. A print on demand report.
The Tainted Desert
Author: Valerie L. Kuletz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1134954263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor decades, nuclear testing in America's southwest was shrouded in secrecy, with images gradually made public of mushroom clouds blooming over the desert. Now, another nuclear crisis looms over this region: the storage of tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste. Tainted Desert maps the nuclear landscapes of the US inter-desert southwest, a land sacrificed to the Cold-War arms race and nuclear energy policy.
