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Category : Nuclear power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
The Monitored Retrievable Storage Facility
Author: Disposition of High-Level Radioactive Waste Through Geological Isolation
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309184584
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
During the next several years, decisions are expected to be made in several countries on the further development and implementation of the geological disposition option. The Board on Radioactive Waste Management (BRWM) of the U.S. National Academies believes that informed and reasoned discussion of relevant scientific, engineering and social issues can-and should-play a constructive role in the decision process by providing information to decision makers on relevant technical and policy issues. A BRWM-initiated project including a workshop at Irvine, California on November 4-5, 1999, and subsequent National Academies' report to be published in spring, 2000, are intended to provide such information to national policy makers both in the U.S. and abroad. To inform national policies, it is essential that experts from the physical, geological, and engineering sciences, and experts from the policy and social science communities work together. Some national programs have involved social science and policy experts from the beginning, while other programs have only recently recognized the importance of this collaboration. An important goal of the November workshop is to facilitate dialogue between these communities, as well as to encourage the sharing of experiences from many national programs. The workshop steering committee has prepared this discussion for participants at the workshop. It should elicit critical comments and help identify topics requiring in-depth discussion at the workshop. It is not intended as a statement of findings, conclusions, or recommendations. It is rather intended as a vehicle for stimulating dialogue among the workshop participants. Out of that dialogue will emerge the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the National Academies' report.
Report of the Monitored Retrievable Storage Review Commission
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Burying Uncertainty
Author: K. S. Shrader-FrechettePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520913965
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically. What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing problems faced by the nuclear power industry, and current U.S. government policy is to bury "radwastes" in specially designed deep repositories. K. S. Shrader-Frechette argues that this policy is profoundly misguided on both scientific and ethical grounds. Scientifically—because we cannot trust the precision of 10,000-year predictions that promise containment of the waste. Ethically—because geological disposal ignores the rights of present and future generations to equal treatment, due process, and free informed consent. Shrader-Frechette focuses her argument on the world's first proposed high-level radioactive waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Analyzing a mass of technical literature, she demonstrates the weaknesses in the professional risk-assessors' arguments that claim the site is sufficiently safe for such a plan. We should postpone the question of geological disposal for at least a century and use monitored, retrievable, above-ground storage of the waste until then. Her message regarding radwaste is clear: what you can't see can hurt you.
Monitored Retrievable Storage Submission to Congress
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis
Author: Nuclear Regulatory Legislation, 110th Congress, 2D Session, Volumes 1 and 2
Author: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U S )Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160836145
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1482
Book Description
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Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Energy and water development appropriations for 1984
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Economics of Natural Resources, the Environment and Policies
Author: E. KulaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401160376
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The economic activities of humanity, particularly during the last couple of cen turies, have had a profound impact on the natural environment. Fast depletion of the world's forest resources, fish stocks, fossil fuels and mine deposits have raised many moral as well as practical questions concerning present and future generations. Furthermore, a number of global environmental problems such as acid rain, the 'greenhouse effect' and depletion of the ozone layer are causing concern throughout the world. What does economics say about the exploitation of nature's scarce resources? This book, which is a much expanded version of an earlier publication, Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment, aims mostly at final-year undergraduates reading subjects such as economics, business studies, environ mental science, forestry, marine biology, agriculture and development studies. There is also a good deal of material - especially in the chapters on fisheries, forestry, valuation and discounting - that post-graduate students may find useful as stepping-stones. The material presented stems from my lectures to final-year students at the University of Ulster during the last 12 years, and some of my ongoing research work. When I moved to Northern Ireland in 1982 I was given a course called 'Economics of Exhaustible Resources' to teach. This has changed its title and focus a number of times along with the structure of the University. My early reading lists included a number of journal articles and books written on the sub ject.