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Category : Nuclear power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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The Monitored Retrievable Storage Facility
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Category : Nuclear power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Pages : 2
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Disposition of High-Level Radioactive Waste Through Geological Isolation
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309184584
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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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.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309184584
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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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.
Monitored Retrievable Storage Submission to Congress
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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US Spent Fuel Policy
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Burying Uncertainty
Author: K. S. Shrader-Frechette
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520913965
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520913965
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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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.
Report of the Monitored Retrievable Storage Review Commission
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Category : Nuclear power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Category : Nuclear power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Environmental Assessment
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Category : Environmental impact analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Volume 1. Chapters 1-5 - Volume 2. Chapters 6-Appendix B - Volume 3. Appendix C.
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Category : Environmental impact analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Volume 1. Chapters 1-5 - Volume 2. Chapters 6-Appendix B - Volume 3. Appendix C.
OCRWM Publications Catalog on High-level Radioactive Waste Management
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Category : Radioactive wastes
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Category : Radioactive wastes
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Nuclear Waste Issues
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power
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Category : Energy policy
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Energy policy
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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