Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on RailroadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Proposed Transportation of Nuclear Waste to the Yucca Mountain Repository
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on RailroadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Going the Distance?
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309164826
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This new report from the National Research Council's Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board (NRSB) and the Transportation Research Board reviews the risks and technical and societal concerns for the transport of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in the United States. Shipments are expected to increase as the U.S. Department of Energy opens a repository for spent fuel and high-level waste at Yucca Mountain, and the commercial nuclear industry considers constructing a facility in Utah for temporary storage of spent fuel from some of its nuclear waste plants. The report concludes that there are no fundamental technical barriers to the safe transport of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive and the radiological risks of transport are well understood and generally low. However, there are a number of challenges that must be addressed before large-quantity shipping programs can be implemented successfully. Among these are managing "social" risks. The report does not provide an examination of the security of shipments against malevolent acts but recommends that such an examination be carried out.
Proposed Transportation of Nuclear Waste to the Yucca Mountain Repository
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on RailroadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Transportation of Spent Rods to the Proposed Yucca Mountain Storage [i.e. Storage Facility]
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and TransitPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309176336
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The 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.
Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309073170
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Focused attention by world leaders is needed to address the substantial challenges posed by disposal of spent nuclear fuel from reactors and high-level radioactive waste from processing such fuel. The biggest challenges in achieving safe and secure storage and permanent waste disposal are societal, although technical challenges remain. Disposition of radioactive wastes in a deep geological repository is a sound approach as long as it progresses through a stepwise decision-making process that takes advantage of technical advances, public participation, and international cooperation. Written for concerned citizens as well as policymakers, this book was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and waste management organizations in eight other countries.
Too Hot to Touch
Author: William M. AlleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030110
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A fascinating and authoritative account of the controversies and possibilities surrounding nuclear waste disposal, providing expert discussion in down-to-earth language.
Yucca Mountain Repository Development
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Status of the Yucca Mountain Project
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
About a Mountain
Author: John D'AgataPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393076695
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Named 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.