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The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States
J. Samuel Walker
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Description for The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States
Hardback. Traces the US 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, this work investigates the approaches adopted by the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: MBN; RNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
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 programs, such as the AEC's embarrassing failure in its first serious effort to build a high-level waste repository in a Kansas salt mine. Clearly and accessibly, Walker explains the issues surrounding deep geological ... Read more
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 programs, such as the AEC's embarrassing failure in its first serious effort to build a high-level waste repository in a Kansas salt mine. Clearly and accessibly, Walker explains the issues surrounding deep geological ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520260450
SKU
V9780520260450
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About J. Samuel Walker
J. Samuel Walker is the historian of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He is the author of Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective and Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century as well as Containing the Atom: Nuclear Regulation in a Changing Environment, 1963-1971, all from UC Press.
Reviews for The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States
"A valuable account of the history/ongoing issues related to this significant problem... Recommended." Choice "An excellent resource." Enterprise & Society "Engaging, concise, and disturbing." Metascience "Walker's history of U.S. nuclear waste management provides a clear reminder of the potential pitfalls of disposal of this material...to ignore these is to invite failure yet again." Journal Of American History "No author could ... Read more