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GAO-04-457 Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Has Made Some Progress in Cleaning Up the Paducah Site, but Challenges Remain
Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2018-01-29
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ISBN : 9781984313690
GAO-04-457 Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Has Made Some Progress in Cleaning Up the Paducah Site, but Challenges Remain
Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2018-01-29
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ISBN : 9781984338099
GAO-04-611 Nuclear Waste: Absence of Key Management Reforms on Hanford's Cleanup Project Adds to Challenges of Achieving Cost and Schedule Goals
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
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ISBN : 1428937692
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 1998
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Author : Warren S. Melfort
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781590338506
The disposal of nuclear waste is becoming a major concern. Many nuclear power plants around the world are nearing the end of their operating lives. This is particularly true in the United States where most nuclear power plants are approaching the end of the operational time period allowed in their licenses. The disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants and nuclear missiles is as politically intense an issue as the plants and missiles themselves. Yet the three issues have remained curiously separate in spite of their close physical ties. Few debates on nuclear power or nuclear weapons discuss the problems of waste disposal should the power plant or missile be decommissioned. Few debates on nuclear waste disposal discuss the opportunities to close nuclear power plants or get rid of nuclear weapons a disposal site would afford. Nuclear waste can be generally classified a either "low level" radioactive waste or "high level" radioactive waste. Low level nuclear waste usually includes material used to handle the highly radioactive parts of nuclear reactors (i.e. cooling water pipes and radiation suits) and waste from medical procedures involving radioactive treatments or x-rays. Low level waste is comparatively easy to dispose of. The level of radioactivity and the half life of the radioactive isotopes in low level waste is relatively small. Storing the waste for a period of 10 to 50 years will allow most of the radioactive isotopes in low level waste to decay, at which point the waste can be disposed of as normal refuse. High level radioactive waste is generally material from the core of the nuclear reactor or nuclear weapon. This waste includes uranium, plutonium, and other highly radioactive elements made during fission. Most of the radioactive isotopes in high level waste emit large amounts of radiation and have extremely long half-lives (some longer than 100,000 years) creating long time periods before the waste will settle to safe levels of radioactivity. This new book explores the issues pertaining, either directly or indirectly, to nuclear waste disposal.
Author : United States Accounting Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
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ISBN : 9781985268777
GAO-01-441 Nuclear Cleanup: DOE Should Reevaluate Waste Disposal Options Before Building New Facilities
Author : United States. Government Accountability Office
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Administrative agencies
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
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ISBN : 142893863X
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 1999*
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : United States
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