Radioactive waste disposal and geology

This book is an excellent, well-presented treatise on the nature and types of radioactive wastes, disposal alternatives and strategies, radionuclide release and disposal models, geologic repositories, natural analogues, subsea-bed options, and low-level wastes. The authors provide national and international perspectives on radioactive waste disposal problems. They carefully dissected each issue, treating its pros and cons equally. Moreover, they is careful to distinguish between the various types of wastes and the respective strategies for their management and disposal. The author also discusses the merits of surface waste protective structures that would require little or no human attention for a very long time