A complete overview of sources of radioactive waste, this book highlights the issues involved in safe transportation and decontamination as well as in decommissioning of nuclear facilities. It covers radioactive decay and radiation shielding calculations, management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high level-waste, low-level waste, transuranic waste, Uranium mill tailings, and mixed waste. It discusses technical and regulatory aspects of waste management and provides a look at historical record and its influence on current policy.
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Radioactive waste management is not a new issue, for it arose with the advent of nuclear energy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
deferred dismantlement, public radiation dose, spent fuel transportation, radwaste management, fuel shipping casks, subseabed disposal, immediate dismantlement, cask concept, fractional release rates, waste storage programs, rail cask, latent health effects, decommissioning experience, collective dose commitment, emplacement techniques, hypothetical accident conditions, equivalent capital investment, nuclear waste glasses, fuel casks, shredder compactor, waste package, decommissioning program, thermal period, decommissioning project, repository conditions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Oak Ridge, New York, University of Arizona, West Valley, Nuclear Energy Agency, American Nuclear Society, Electric Power Research Institute, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Radioactive Waste Technology, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, Palo Alto, Savannah River, United Kingdom, National Academy Press, National Research Council, Sandia National Laboratories, West Germany, Final Report, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Engineering Center, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Code of Federal Regulations, Niagara Falls New!
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Radioactive waste management is not a new issue, for it arose with the advent of nuclear energy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
deferred dismantlement, public radiation dose, spent fuel transportation, radwaste management, fuel shipping casks, subseabed disposal, immediate dismantlement, cask concept, fractional release rates, waste storage programs, rail cask, latent health effects, decommissioning experience, collective dose commitment, emplacement techniques, hypothetical accident conditions, equivalent capital investment, nuclear waste glasses, fuel casks, shredder compactor, waste package, decommissioning program, thermal period, decommissioning project, repository conditions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Oak Ridge, New York, University of Arizona, West Valley, Nuclear Energy Agency, American Nuclear Society, Electric Power Research Institute, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Radioactive Waste Technology, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, Palo Alto, Savannah River, United Kingdom, National Academy Press, National Research Council, Sandia National Laboratories, West Germany, Final Report, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Engineering Center, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Code of Federal Regulations, Niagara Falls New!
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- Nuclear Waste Management (Advances in Ceramics) by International Symposium on Ceramics in Nuclear Waste Management 1983 on 14 pages
- Understanding Radioactive Waste by Raymond L. Murray on page 16, page 42, and page 44
- Nuclear Chemical Engineering (McGraw-Hill series in nuclear engineering) by Manson Benedict on page 95, and page 167
- Radioactive Waste Technology by A. Alan Moghissi on page 12, and page 378
- Marine Pollution by Lord Callaghan on page 414, and page 416
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- Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting by Michael B. Gerrard in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Chemical Separation Technologies and Related Methods of Nuclear Waste Management: Applications, Problems, and Research Needs (NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 2:) by Gregory R. Choppin on page 186
- Radioactive Waste Management by James Saling on page 274
- Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety, 2nd Edition by R. Scott Stricoff on page 242
- Nuclear Renaissance: Technologies and Policies for the Future of Nuclear Power by William J. Nuttall on page 119
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