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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.
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G. N. Cook
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing a reorganization of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management in 1990, the Yucca Mountain Project was renamed Yucca Mountain Site Charactrization Project. The title of this bibliography was also changed to Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project Bibliography. Prior to August 5, 1988, this project was called the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations. This bibliography contains information on this ongoing project that was added to the Department of Energy`s Science and Technology Database from July 1, 1994 through December 31, 1994. The bibliography is categorized by principal project participating organization. Participant-sponsored subcontractor reports, papers, and articles are included in the sponsoring organization`s list. Another section contains information about publications on the Energy Science and Technology Database that were not sponsored by the project but have some relevance to it.
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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.
Author: John D'Agata
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-02-07
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0393076695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNamed 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: Thomas C. Hanks
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John S. Stuckless
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0813711991
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wendell A. Duffield
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2007-04-11
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0595885349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to the year 2025. Following a lengthy approval process seemingly driven more by politics than science, the nation's inventory of high-level radioactive waste is finally stored in underground passageways dug into the guts of Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Two years later, the unexpected and unthinkable happens a violent volcanic eruption blasts its way through the mountain. Because Yucca is saturated with the percolating abundant rainfall brought about by climate change, explosive steam bursts add to an already destructive eruption as two-thousand-degree magma mixes with water. Radioactive waste is erupted along with volcanic ash, creating the ultimate dirty bomb. The deadly mixture is blown downwind where it settles out over Las Vegas and Lake Mead. The city must be evacuated and the lake drained, displacing and disrupting the lives of millions of people for long into the future. Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb invites the reader to live vicariously through a scenario that experts consider unlikely, as measured by carefully calculated probability (popularly called "the odds") the very mathematical construct that sustains the gambling mecca of Las Vegas. Nonetheless, unlikely events can and do occur, and in this novel "the house" loses!
