Decision-making and Radioactive Waste Disposal
The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that nuclear power generation facilities produce about 200,000 cubic meters of low and intermediate-level waste each year. Vital medical procedures, industrial processes and basic science research also produce significant quantities of waste. All of this waste must be shielded from the population for extended periods of time. Finding suitable locations for disposal facilities is beset by two main problems: community responses to siting proposals are generally antagonistic and, as a result, governments have tended to be reactive in their policy-making. Decision-making and Radioactive Waste Dispo…
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Weitere Autoren: Nagtzaam, Gerry
- ISBN: 978-1-136-68632-0
- EAN: 9781136686320
- Produktnummer: 22635662
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 332 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'764 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 8 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Andrew Newman is Senior Program Officer in the Material Security & Minimization Program at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington DC, USA.Gerry Nagtzaam is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, specializing in international environmental law, ecoterrorism and biodiversity issues.
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