One Hundred Centuries Of Solitude
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A01=Doug Easterling
A01=Howard Kunreuther
A01=James Chalmers
A01=James Flynn
A01=Roger Kasperson
American Nuclear Energy Council effort
Author_Doug Easterling
Author_Howard Kunreuther
Author_James Chalmers
Author_James Flynn
Author_Roger Kasperson
Cask Design
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Central Interim Storage Facility
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
Department of energy programs
environmental risk assessment
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GAO Report
geologic repository
High Cumulative Releases
high-level nuclear waste management
HLNW
HLNW Disposal
HLNW Repository
HLNW Site
institutional failure nuclear policy
intergovernmental conflict effects
Interim Storage Facilities
Intermediate Level Radioactive Wastes
Low Level Radioactive Wastes
Monitored Retrievable Storage
National Academy
Nuclear Waste Fund
Nuclear waste policy act
nuclear waste site selection process
policy analysis
Potential Host Communities
public perception nuclear energy
radioactive waste management
Repository Program
Repository Site
Site Selection
Spent Fuel Rods
Spent Nuclear Fuel
Yucca Mountain
Yucca Mountain Project
Yucca Mountain Repository
Yucca Mountain Site
Product details
- ISBN 9780367281908
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 152 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Time is both the ally of high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) managers and the enemy. It is the ally because the radioactivity in elements and isotopes decreases with age, making the waste progressively less dangerous to human health and safety and the environment. This rate of radioactive decline varies, in some cases diminishing by half (the half life) in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years. In other cases the decay process takes centuries or hundreds of thousands of years before the wastes are safe for human contact. The problem as now conceptualized for HLNW managers is simple to state if not easy to achieve. The HLNW needs to be secured in some fashion until it decays, by virtue of its physical nature, to safe levels. Another possible future solution, not currently available, might be to change the ~~ructure of HLNW through high-technology processing and thus decompose the waste into units with different and less lengthy radioactivity. Learning whether this processing is a future option will require patience and generous amounts of time for research.
The authors have studied the socioeconomic effects of nuclear waste storage for over a decade The authors have studied the socioeconomic effects of nuclear waste storage for over a decade The authors have studied the socioeconomic effects of nuclear waste storage for over a decade.
