Yucca Mountain pro and con [nuclear waste storage]

Yucca Mountain pro and con [nuclear waste storage]

It's just a lonely ridge of volcanic rock in Nevada, but it's generating more controversy than an indicted CEO. It's where the US Department of Energy wants to build a permanent underground repository for high-level nuclear waste. This paper discusses the arguments for and against Yuc...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE spectrum 2002-10, Vol.39 (10), p.41-44
Hauptverfasser: Garrick, B.J., Gilinsky, V.
Format: Magazinearticle
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Accidents
Arm
Geology
Licenses
Permission
Public relations
Radioactive pollution
Testing
US Department of Energy
Waste disposal
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Zusammenfassung:It's just a lonely ridge of volcanic rock in Nevada, but it's generating more controversy than an indicted CEO. It's where the US Department of Energy wants to build a permanent underground repository for high-level nuclear waste. This paper discusses the arguments for and against Yucca Mountain.
ISSN:0018-9235
1939-9340
DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2002.1038568