Burying uncertainty : risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste /

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 p...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
Temas:
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground > Environmental aspects.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground > Risk assessment.
Déchets radioactifs > Élimination dans le sol > Aspect de l'environnement.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > Nuclear.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Radioaktiver Abfall
Endlagerung
Geologie
Risiko
Radioactive waste materials > Disposal
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Riddle of Nuclear Waste
  • The Status Quo: Promoting Permanent Disposal
  • The Mistakes of the Past
  • Understanding the Origins of the Problem
  • Radioactive Waste: Technical Background
  • Radioactive Waste: Historical Background
  • The Current Status of High-Level Radioactive Waste
  • Radioactive Waste: Legal and Regulatory Background
  • Reliance on Value Judgments in Repository Risk Assessment
  • Science and Methodological Value Judgments
  • Quantitative Risk Assessment and Value Judgments
  • Value Judgments in Estimating Risks
  • Value Judgments in Evaluating Risks
  • Subjective Estimates of Repository Risks
  • Repository Risk Estimates Rely on Questionable Value Judgments
  • Value Judgments about Long-term Risks
  • Value Judgments about Model Reliability
  • Value Judgments about Simplification of the Phenomena
  • Value Judgments about Reliability of Sampling
  • Value Judgments about Laboratory Predictions
  • Value Judgments about Fractured, Unsaturated Media
  • Value Judgments that Interpolations Are Acceptable
  • Value Judgments that Human Error Is Not Significant
  • Problems with Yucca Mountain versus Problems with Permanent Disposal
  • Subjective Evaluations of Repository Risks
  • Value Judgments that a Given Magnitude of Risk Is Acceptable
  • Value Judgments that Risk Reductions Are Sufficient
  • Value Judgments that Worst-case Hazards Are Not Credible
  • Value Judgments that Average Risks Are Acceptable
  • Value Judgments that More Recent Assessments Are More Reliable
  • Value Judgments that Utilitarian Risk Theories Are Just.

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