Published August 1999
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Journal article
A perspective on nuclear waste
Description
The management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste has the deserved reputation as one of the most intractable policy issues facing the US and other nations using nuclear reactors for electric power generation. This paper presents the author's perspective on this complex issue, based on a decade of service with the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board and Board on Radioactive Waste Management of the National Research Council
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Risk Analysis
- Journal Volume
- 19
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 751-756
- ISSN
- 0272-4332
- CODEN
- RIANDF
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 31012534
- Subject category
- S29: ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; SPENT FUELS; YUCCA MOUNTAIN
- Descriptors DEC
- ENERGY SOURCES; FUELS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; MOUNTAINS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEAR FUELS; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; REACTOR MATERIALS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES