The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States
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In The Road to Yucca Mountain, J. Samuel Walker traces the U.S. government's tangled efforts to solve the technical and political problems associated with radioactive waste. From the Manhattan Project through the designation in 1987 of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a high-level waste repository, Walker thoroughly investigates the approaches adopted by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He explains the growing criticism of the AEC's waste...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520260457
ISBN13:9780520260450
Release Date:September 2009
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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