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Nuclear waste : management, disposal and governance /

Nuclear waste management is an interdisciplinary issue requiring a variety of approaches and a holistic understanding of the field. In this edited volume, Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig brings together leading researchers from geoengineering, nuclear physics, materials science and the social sciences to prov...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Röhlig, Klaus-Jürgen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 22.
IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part I. Scientific and technical background. 1. Radioactivity / Clemens Walther
  • 2. Nuclear fuel from cradle to grave : existing variants and future options for the fuel cycle and resulting waste types / Wolfgang Kröger and Andrej Stankovski
  • 3. Other waste origins (industry, medicine, research) : sources and resulting waste types / Michael I. Ojovan
  • 4. Waste management policy and strategy / Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig
  • 5. Waste conditioning and wasteforms / Michael I. Ojovan
  • 6. Storage and transport / Maik Stuke, Mathias Häring and Jörn Becker
  • 7. Disposal and other conceivable strategy 'endpoints' for different types of waste / Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig
  • 8. Geologic ('deep') disposal of high-level and other long-lived waste : host rocks, concepts, current international status / Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig
  • 9. Decision-making in the presence of uncertainty : the safety case as a tool supporting the development of a deep geologic repository / Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig
  • part II. Nuclear waste management and society. 10. Legal and regulatory issues / Hans Wanner
  • 11. Perspectives on risk and risk perception / Anne Eckhardt
  • 12. The politization and politics of nuclear waste : a socio-technical history / Karena Kalmbach
  • 13. Role of stakeholder involvement in the implementation of radioactive waste management projects / David Brazier, Jo-Ann Facella, Pascale Jana Künzi and Erik Setzman
  • 14. Ethical aspects of high-level nuclear waste management / Konrad Ott
  • 15. Geology, engineering, and society : repository siting as a socio-technical problem / Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig
  • 16. The German case for dealing with high-level radioactive waste : taking a socio-technical approach to address a socio-technical problem--chances and risks / Armin Grunwald.