Principles and standards for the disposal of long-lived radioactive wastes /

This handbook is concerned with developing principles and standards for the safe disposal of solid radioactive wastes by burial deep in the Earth's crust. Radioactive wastes have focussed thinking on long-term environmental protection issues in an unprecedented way. Consequently, the way in whi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chapman, Neil A.
Otros Autores: McCombie, Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Pergamon, 2003.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Waste management series ; v. 3.
Temas:
Radioactive waste disposal.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground.
D�echets radioactifs > �Elimination dans le sol.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Waste Management.
Lagring av radioaktivt avfall.
radioactief afval
radioactive wastes
afvalverwijdering
waste disposal
afvalbeheer
waste management
geologische sedimentatie
geological sedimentation
Waste treatment
Afvalverwerking
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Safety and Security Issues in Deep Geological Disposal
  • Chapter 3. Ethics
  • Chapter 4. Reversibility and Retrievability
  • Chapter 5. Timescales in Repository Evolution
  • Chapter 6. Performance Measures and Appropriate Standards
  • Chapter 7. Siting Requirements within Standards
  • Chapter 8. Natural Disruptive Events and Processes
  • Chapter 9. Intrusion by Future Generations
  • Chapter 10. Monitoring and Controlling a Repository before and after Closure
  • Chapter 11. Preserving Records of the Existence of a Repository
  • Chapter 12. Accounting for Uncertainty
  • Chapter 13. Chemotoxicity and Radiotoxicity: a Common Framework?
  • Chapter 14. Setting New Standards
  • Chapter 14. Setting New Standards
  • Chapter 16. References
  • Appendix 1: International Conventions and Agreements Concerning Deep Geological Disposal of Long-Lived Radioactive Wastes
  • Appendix 2: Development of Radiation Protection Standards for Geological Disposal of Radioactive Wastes in the USA
  • Appendix 3: List of Acronyms.

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