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Too hot to touch : the problem of high-level nuclear waste /
"Today, the issue of waste management is as prominent as reactor safety in the controversies surrounding nuclear power and is particularly topical in the US since the 2010 closure of the Yucca Mountain repository project. William and Rosemarie Alley provide an engaging and authoritative account...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Acknowledgments
- Units
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The problem
- 1 The awakening
- The salt of the earth
- A technology ahead of itself
- 2 Brainstorming
- 3 The ocean as a dumping ground
- Radioactive waste disposal at sea
- Subseabed disposal
- 4 Radioactivity and atomic energy
- Radioactivity 101
- The periodic table: chemistrys rosetta stone
- Radiation and its effects
- Nuclear fission
- 5 The Cold War legacy
- Hanford
- Savannah River site
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Tank cleanup- in the eye of the beholder
- Awash with plutonium
- 6 The peaceful atom and its wastes
- Spent nuclear fuel
- Uranium enrichment
- 7 Recycling
- Plutonium recycling and nuclear proliferation
- Fast reactors
- Nuclear alchemy
- GNEP
- 8 Dry cask storage
- 9 Interim storage
- 10 A can of worms
- The needles meeting
- The Beatty controversy
- 11 WIPP
- Curious. Very curious
- The story of WIPP
- Part II The mountain
- 12 The search for a geologic repository
- An energy crisis and a new agency
- Moving past Lyons
- Time to reassess
- Congress gets its act together
- 13 Nevada wins the lottery
- Narrowing the first-round choices
- The second round
- 14 The Nevada Test Site
- 15 Yucca Mountain
- Politics enter the picture
- The Nevada initiative
- Scientific battles
- Another inconvenient truth
- 16 How long is long?
- The story of ice
- The big dig
- The pacemaker of the ice ages
- Devils hole
- An unsolved mystery
- 17 Leaving almost no stone unturned
- Total system performance assessment
- The EPA standards
- TSPA credibility
- Natural analogues
- Exploratory Studies Facility
- How hot is hot?
- 18 Surprise
- Uncertainty in the UZ
- Nature versus engineering
- Plutonium transport at the NTS
- Ground zero at Yucca Mountain
- 19 Shake & bake
- Volcanic hazards.
- Seismic hazards
- 20 The project gets into hot water
- Upwelling water
- Fluid inclusions
- A compact Pleistocene record
- The scientific legacy of Yucca Mountain
- Part III No solution in sight
- 21 A new President, new policies
- The Blue Ribbon Commission
- Looking further afield
- 22 Nuclear waste and our energy future
- Lack of interest
- A preoccupation with predictions into the far-distant future
- Crisis of confidence
- Recognizing sound science and its limitations
- NIMS and NIMBY
- Appendix Discussion questions
- Science and risk
- Communication and the public
- Policy and politics
- General concluding questions
- References
- Index.