UID:
almafu_9960962783902883
Format:
1 online resource (492 p.)
ISBN:
1-315-67348-7
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1-317-37629-3
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1-317-37630-7
Series Statement:
Routledge revivals
Content:
This title, first published in 1987, examines the topic of nuclear waste management, and the way in which the public reacts to this issue. Part 1 explores the sources of public unease, such as the way in which nuclear waste had failed to be properly contained in the past. Part 2 looks at the search for a waste policy and the introduction of The Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Part 3 examines the waste problem from the standpoint of it being an international issue, and finally, Part 4 looks to the future and the lessons that we can learn from past nuclear waste management failures. This book will be
Note:
First published in 1987 by Resources for the Future, Inc.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Sources of Public Unease; 1 Containment; The ""Real"" Versus the ""Imaginary"" Problems; The Wastes; Three Mile Island: The Cleanup and the Wastes; Containment, Wastes, and the Fuel Cycle; Permanent, or Geologic, Isolation; 2 A Technology Ahead of Itself; Early Efforts to Confront the Hazards; Finally a Waste Policy-with Flaws; The AEC Gets a New Chairman and a New Waste Policy; The Nuclear Critics and the Technology Issues
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Showdown in California: The Consequences of Rapid Development3 The Reprocessing Dilemma; Successful Military Reprocessing: Hanford and Savannah River; Commercial Reprocessing: Failure at West Valley; White Elephant at Morris; Reprocessing in Limbo: Barnwell; Safeguards, Proliferation, and Presidential Policies; Part 2: Searching for a Waste Policy; 4 Policy Struggles in the Bureaucracy; Policy Initiatives under Carter; The President's Policy Statement; 5 Conflict in the Host States; The Salt Beds; The Salt Domes; The Hanford Basalt; Yucca Mountain and the Unsaturated Zone
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The WIPP Experience in New Mexico: An Important FirstConclusions from Field and Host-State Experience; 6 The Nuclear Waste Policy Act; The Interests at Play; The Ninety-sixth Congress: Defining the Nuclear Waste Issues; The Ninety-seventh Congress: The Senate; The Ninety-seventh Congress: The House; House-Senate Negotiations; What Had Been Achieved; Part 3: Europe, Japan, and the International Waste Problem; Introduction to Part 3; 7 The United Kingdom: Problems of Containment; High-level Waste: Finessing the Geologic Disposal Issue; Intermediate-and Low-level Waste
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Liquid Waste Discharges to the Irish SeaA New Emphasis on Containment; 8 Germany: Wastes, Fuel Cycle Choice, and Politics; The Gorleben Salt Dome Project; The German Anti-nuclear Movement and other Protest; The Gorleben International Review; The Nuclear Policy of 1979; The Changing Political Environment since 1982; The Wackersdorf Demonstration Reprocessing Plant; Door Ajar: The Geologic Disposal Alternative for Spent Fuel; The Status of the Gorleben Salt Dome Investigation; Conclusion; 9 Sweden: Robust Solutions; Early Controversy: Nuclear Development and Its Opposition
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The Stipulation Act: Political Compromise-with Political FalloutThe Nuclear Referendum Campaign; Spent Fuel and Waste Management: Facilities and Technology; Conclusion: Meeting the Imperatives; 10 France: Commitment to Plutonium Fuel; Early Developments and Expansion; Sources of Opposition and Support; Nuclear Energy and the Mitterrand Government; Overcommitment at La Hague?; Nuclear Waste Management; The Fate of Separated Plutonium; Conclusion; 11 Japan, the Pacific, and the Nuclear Allergy; Japan's Nuclear Allergy; Japan's Nuclear Dependence; The Siting Problem
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Waste and Spent Fuel Management: A New Urgency
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-94184-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-94122-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315673486
