The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States - The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States

This book traces the efforts of policy makers to find solutions to the complex issues for disposal of radioactive waste that has become a source of scientific inquiry, programmatic deadlock, and public controversy. The author's focus is on waste from the commercial applications of nuclear energy, not exclusively from nuclear power plants. Additionally, author, J. Samuel Walker, examines the early history of radioactive waste disposal at government installations that produced materials for nuclear weapons within this book.

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About the author

J. Samuel Walker is the historian of the United States Regulatory Commision. He is the author of Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (ISBN: 9780160945939) and Permissible Dose: A History o Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century (ISBN: 9780160949432).

Product details

• Authors: J Samuel Walker, J. Samuel Walker
• Assisted by: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U S (Editor), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U S ) (Editor)
• Publisher: Us Independent Agencies and Commissions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2017
• EAN: 9780160949425
• ISBN: 978-0-16-094942-5
• No. of pages: 228
• Weight: 538 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics