Waste Management

A topic within Nuclear Engineering, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Engineering.

Reading on Waste Management

2 works

Report2002

Final Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain

United States Department of Energy

Evaluates whether burying the nation's spent nuclear fuel a thousand feet inside a volcanic ridge in the Nevada desert can be shown to isolate it from the environment for ten thousand years, and what would happen if the site assessment is wrong.

Engineering · Nuclear Engineering

FreeIntermediate

Book2006

Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste

Allison M. Macfarlane & Rodney C. Ewing

Argues that the scientific case for Yucca Mountain was asked to bear a certainty about ten-thousand-year geological behaviour that no science can actually supply, making the site's selection as much a political choice as a technical one.

Engineering · Nuclear Engineering

PaidAdvanced

Reading on Waste Management

Final Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain

Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste

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